Research and Methods Core

项目总结/摘要（研究和方法核心） 宾夕法尼亚大学远程医疗研究的研究和方法核心的目标 癌症护理中心（Penn TRC）将通过设计和 测试创新的远程保健战略，以提高癌症护理的有效性和公平性 连续体研究和方法核心将利用以下方面的见解开发新的方法论方法： 传播科学和行为经济学，并采用创新的混合方法和快速循环 推进最佳远程保健服务的证据基础的方法。研究与方法 核心将解决三个主要问题：1）我们如何利用传播科学的见解， 行为经济学，以有效地整合高质量的远程医疗到癌症护理提供？2)我们怎么能 了解成功的远程医疗保健提供的机制，使用多层次，混合方法的方法， 允许在未来的项目中改进和更准确地应用成功的干预措施， 超越我们的医疗保健系统？以及3）我们如何将健康公平纳入我们中心的研究， 在框架、干预设计、监测、方法和措施方面，确保远程保健 减少而不是加剧持续的健康和数字不平等？研究的具体目标 和方法的核心是：1）应用来自传播科学，行为科学， 设计和测试同步远程医疗的经济学、快速循环方法和统计方法 由异步要素支持的战略，以提高癌症护理的有效性和公平性; 2） 采用先进的混合方法来阐明多层次的个人和背景 有助于远程医疗战略有效性的机制; 3）设计，实施和评估 一项实用试验和两个试点项目的结果，以比较同步远程医疗的有效性 改善肺癌护理的策略;以及4）支持广泛的沟通和传播 结果提供给不同的利益攸关方，以促进在全国范围内整合最佳的远程保健服务， 全面评估中心的研究进展和传播实施的成功率 活动实现研究和方法的核心目标将是确保宾夕法尼亚大学TRC实现的核心。 其目标是产生关于远程医疗的新的基础知识，并有可能改变癌症护理 交付，公平和数百万美国人的结果。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT (RESEARCH AND METHODS CORE) The objective of the Research and Methods Core of the University of Pennsylvania Telehealth Research Center in Cancer Care (Penn TRC) is to advance the research program of the Center through the design and testing of innovative telehealth strategies to improve effectiveness and equity across the cancer care continuum. The Research and Methods Core will develop new methodological approaches using insights from communication science and behavioral economics and employ innovative mixed methods and rapid-cycle approaches to advance the evidence base for optimal telehealth care delivery. The Research and Methods Core will address three major questions: 1) How can we employ insights from communication science and behavioral economics to effectively integrate high-quality telehealth into cancer care delivery?; 2) How can we understand mechanisms of successful telehealth care delivery using multilevel, mixed methods approaches to allow for refinement and more precise application of successful interventions in future projects within and beyond our health care system?; and 3) How can we integrate health equity into our Center’s research, with respect to frameworks, intervention design, monitoring, methods, and measures, to ensure that telehealth reduces, rather than exacerbates, persistent health and digital inequities? The specific aims of the Research and Methods Core are to: 1) Apply insights and innovations from communication science, behavioral economics, rapid-cycle approaches, and statistical methods to design and test synchronous telehealth strategies, supported by asynchronous elements, to improve the effectiveness and equity of cancer care; 2) Employ advanced mixed methods approaches to elucidate the multilevel individual and contextual mechanisms that contribute to the effectiveness of telehealth strategies; 3) Design, conduct, and evaluate findings from a pragmatic trial and two pilot projects to compare the effectiveness of synchronous telehealth strategies to improve lung cancer care; and 4) Support widespread communication and dissemination of results to diverse stakeholders to advance integration of optimal telehealth care delivery nationally and to evaluate comprehensively the Center’s research progress and success of dissemination and implementation activities. Achieving the Research and Methods Core aims will be central to ensuring the Penn TRC achieves its goal of producing new fundamental knowledge on telehealth with the potential to transform cancer care delivery, equity, and outcomes for millions of Americans.