Research Insights: A Conference Grant Proposal to Disseminate Research on Health

描述(由申请者提供)：在过去的三年里，由AHRQ最初的大型会议赠款资助的Research Insights系列成功地提供了一个独特的论坛，以确定和审查与医疗保健成本、资金和组织相关的证据，并突出缺乏证据基础的潜在可研究主题。参与者评价表明，这些会议和相关材料对为决策者提供建议的政策“中间人”很有用。对于研究洞察系列的继续，我们更加强调通过网络研讨会的召集和传播方法的创新，试图进一步扩大我们对国家政策制定者的影响。Academy yHealth和AHRQ之间这种伙伴关系的继续将加强它们各自的努力，以支持创建严格、及时的研究并向决策者传播研究结果。《研究洞察》系列的继续旨在：1)在系列会议头三年建立的哨兵机制的基础上，确定与医疗保健费用、组织、市场和生产力有关的当前和新出现的政策问题；2)确定在这些内容领域最新的、做得很好的研究，并得到这类工作的所有主要资助者的支持；3)创造机会，让研究人员和政策制定者就相关现有研究成果的影响和局限性进行对话。我们计划在Research Insights系列的未来三年内保留和扩展这些创新功能。Research Insights项目的核心是每年举行一次30至40人的邀请会和一次公开的网络研讨会。每年的会议和网络研讨会都将讨论相同或相关的主题。我们预计每年2月、3月或4月(2014-2016年)举行面对面会议，相关的网络研讨会将在4至8周后举行。成立的项目咨询委员会(PAC)将于每年9月举行会议，根据1)当前政策相关性、2)研究相关证据的可用性以及3)以往传播工作中的差距确定会议议题并确定优先次序。委员会成员亦会就会议的议程、建议的主持人和讲者，以及每次会议的邀请，向职员提供意见。与会者将包括联邦和州政策中介机构和领先的专家研究人员。在未来三年内，将通过选题和有针对性的研究陈述，更加重视AHRQ优先人群。每一次会议都将产生一个问题简报，我们将通过我们的网站公开网络研讨会的录音。Academy emyHealth将继续使用参与者调查、互联网统计数据和PAC的反馈来评估拨款，但将通过与问题摘要一起发送的第二次参与者调查来扩展我们的评估，以更好地使用基于逻辑模型和变革理论的方法来衡量会议及其相关材料对参与者的影响和结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past three years, the Research Insights series, funded through an initial AHRQ large conference grant, has successfully provided a unique forum to identify and examine evidence related to health care costs, financing, and organization and to highlight potentially researchable topics where the evidence base is lacking. Participant evaluations document that these meetings and associated materials have been useful to the policy "intermediaries" who advise decision makers. For the continuation of the Research Insights series, we place even greater emphasis on innovation through webinar methods of convening and dissemination in an attempt to further broaden our reach to state policymakers. The continuation of this partnership between AcademyHealth and AHRQ will augment their respective efforts to support the creation of rigorous, timely research and disseminate findings to decision makers. Continuation of the Research Insights series seeks to: 1) build upon the sentinel mechanism established during the first three years of the meeting series to identify current and emerging policy issues concerning health care costs, organization, markets and productivity; 2) identify the most current, well-done research on these content areas supported by all major funders of such work; and 3) create opportunities for dialogue among researchers and policymakers about the implications and limitations of relevant existing research findings. We plan to retain and expand these innovative features in the next three years of the Research Insights series. The heart of the Research Insights project will be the one invitational meeting of 30 to 40 participants and one open webinar to be held each year of the grant. Each year's meeting and webinar will be on the same or related topics. We anticipate holding the in-person meetings in February, March or April of each year (2014- 2016) and their associated webinars will follow four to eight weeks later. The established Project Advisory Committee (PAC) will meet in September of each year to identify and prioritize meeting topics based on 1) current policy relevance; 2) availability of relevant evidence from research; and 3) gaps in previous dissemination efforts. Members of the PAC will also advise staff about the agenda, suggested moderator and speakers, and invitations for each meeting. Meeting participants will include federal and state policy intermediaries and leading expert researchers. AHRQ Priority Populations will be given greater emphasis over the next three years through topic selection and targeted research presentations. Each meeting will result in an issue brief, and we will make webinar recordings publicly available through our website. AcademyHealth will continue to evaluate the grant using participant surveys, internet statistics, and feedback from the PAC but will expand our evaluation with a second participant survey sent in conjunction with the issue brief to better measure the impact and outcomes of the meeting and its related materials on participants using methods based on logic models and change theory.