EXPERT PANEL MEETING ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

专家小组会议推进持续质量改进的科学

• 批准号: 7753123
• 负责人: LISA V RUBENSTEIN
• 金额: $ 1.54万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2010-12-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7753123
• 关键词: EXPERT; PANEL; MEETING; ADVANCING; SCIENCE

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Progress toward reliable, effective and efficient continuous quality improvement (CQI) will be more rapid if supported by a sophisticated CQI scientific field. A consensus finding conference of key stakeholders in quality improvement will provide much needed input for research and practice. The 1.5 day meeting is planned for August 05 and 06 2009 and will take place at RAND, Santa Monica, CA. The meeting is part of an ongoing initiative that uses rigorous scientific evidence review, in combination with established sets of quality criteria, to identify and assess current scientific publications on CQI. Our objective is to engage an evidence review panel comprised of influential expert stakeholders to achieve consensus on a checklist of key features (the minimum quality criteria set, or MQCS) that, when incorporated into CQI manuscripts, will indicate acceptable study and manuscript quality. The MQCS will thus be useful for writing, reviewing, and assessing CQI studies. While the focus of the checklist is on publication, we expect CQI practitioners to use it for planning data collection. The MQCS will thus serve as an important link bridging CQI science and practice. In preparation for this meeting we will develop and validate strategies for the identification of CQI studies, and contrast definitions of CQI. Established quality criteria will be identified and applied to a representative sample of articles that empirically evaluate CQI interventions. This will document the level of adherence to these criteria and facilitate analysis of the relationship between criteria and study outcomes. The findings will support the consensus finding process for the selection of essential quality criteria captured by the MQCS. We will apply consensus finding techniques that have led to many successful outcomes of RAND evidence review panels in the past. Funding is already in place for the extensive preparation for this important and influential meeting. The meeting deliverable is the MQCS checklist. Further deliverables are validated electronic search strategies for identifying CQI literature; screening and assessment tools; publications on the searches, the level of adherence to the MQCS criteria in current literature and the relationships between quality criteria and CQI study outcomes. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Other Project Information, line item 7: Quality improvement intervention practitioners and evaluators seek to improve public health by engaging healthcare organizations and their providers in developing and implementing better approaches to care delivery. This project aims to establish a checklist of key features that, when incorporated into evaluations, will indicate acceptable study and publication quality which in turn will help to assess the existing evidence and allow recommendations to improve public health. A meeting with influential experts and stakeholders and contemporary consensus finding methods are necessary to achieve useful criteria.

描述（由申请人提供）：如果有一个成熟的持续质量改进科学领域的支持，向可靠、有效和高效的持续质量改进（CQI）的进展将会更快。质量改进关键利益相关者的共识会议将为研究和实践提供急需的投入。为期1.5天的会议计划于2009年8月5日至6日在加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡的兰德公司举行。该会议是一项正在进行的计划的一部分，该计划使用严格的科学证据审查，结合已建立的质量标准集，来识别和评估关于CQI的当前科学出版物。我们的目标是让一个由有影响力的专家利益相关者组成的证据审查小组就关键特征清单（最低质量标准集，或MQCS）达成共识，当这些特征被纳入CQI手稿时，将表明可接受的研究和手稿质量。因此，MQCS将有助于编写、审查和评估CQI研究。虽然清单的重点是发布，但我们希望CQI从业者使用它来规划数据收集。因此，MQCS将成为连接CQI科学与实践的重要纽带。在本次会议的准备工作中，我们将制定和验证识别CQI研究的策略，并对比CQI的定义。将确定已建立的质量标准，并将其应用于经验性评估CQI干预措施的具有代表性的文章样本。这将记录对这些标准的遵守程度，并有助于分析标准与研究结果之间的关系。调查结果将支持寻求协商一致意见的过程，以选择由MQCS收集的基本质量标准。我们将应用共识发现技术，这些技术在过去已经导致兰德证据审查小组取得了许多成功的结果。为这一重要和有影响的会议进行广泛筹备，资金已经到位。会议交付物是MQCS检查表。进一步的成果是验证了识别CQI文献的电子搜索策略；筛选和评估工具；当前文献中MQCS标准的遵守程度以及质量标准与CQI研究结果之间的关系。