2010 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS): Quantitative I

描述(由申请者提供)：国际卫生政策统计会议：卫生政策分析中的量化见解和进展，是一个科学会议，重点是卫生政策和研究方法之间的相互作用。它的具体目标是为统计学家、心理测量学家和其他研究方法论专家创建一个教育和研究论坛，以交流和建立想法，讨论研究需求，并为方法学挑战制定解决方案。计划中的会议审查了非常符合卫生保健研究和质量机构目标的广泛主题，特别是通过开发、辩论和传播可用于此目的的最新研究方法来促进健康成果。此外，根据美国统计协会最近为进一步努力让决策者和其他利益攸关方参与卫生政策领域而采取的举措，2010年卫生与健康问题国际中心将完全侧重于对与政策问题有关的数据进行量化分析。尽管被邀请的计划将涵盖许多相关的技术领域：因果推断、倾向评分、归因、多种治疗比较、微观计量经济学方法、生存和纵向数据的联合模型、模拟和预测以及新的试验设计，但它将在相关卫生政策的背景下这样做。 这些领域包括比较有效性研究、设定研究重点、医疗服务提供者的表现和报销问题、精神健康和药物滥用政策、FDA黑匣子警告、个人健康记录和数据保密问题以及国家医疗改革。除了邀请和贡献的会议外，该计划还将提供研讨会，旨在提供当代卫生政策研究前沿的方法、资源和应用方面的研究培训和职业发展。这次会议由美国统计协会卫生政策统计部主办。资金将用于帮助抵消部分会议费用和减少财政障碍，以鼓励更广泛地参与会议，特别是学生和初级研究人员。国际卫生政策统计会议：争取就方法达成共识是一次科学会议，其重点是卫生政策和研究方法之间的相互作用。其具体目的是为统计学家、心理测量学家和研究方法方面的其他专家创建一个教育和研究论坛，让政策制定者参与进来，交流和建立想法，讨论研究需求，并为方法学挑战制定解决方案。

DESCRIPTION (PROVIDED BY APPLICANT): The International Conference on Health Policy Statistics: Quantitative Insights and Advances in Health Policy Analysis, is a scientific conference that focuses on the interplay between health policy and research methodology. Its specific aim is to create an educational and research forum for statisticians, psychometricians, and other experts in research methodology to exchange and build upon ideas, discuss research needs, and develop solutions to methodological challenges. The planned sessions examine a broad range of topics that fits very well with the goals of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, especially to promote health outcomes by developing, debating and disseminating state-of-art research methods that can be used to this end. Moreover, in line with the American Statistical Association's recent initiatives to further its efforts at engaging policy makers and other stakeholders in the health policy arena, ICHPS 2010 will entirely focus on quantitative analysis of data related to policy issues. Although the invited program will cover many of the relevant technical areas: causal inference, propensity scores, imputation, multi-treatment comparisons, microeconometric methods, joint models for survival and longitudinal data, simulations and forecasts and novel trial designs, it will do so within the context of relevant health policy areas such as comparative effectiveness research, setting research priorities, provider practice performance and reimbursement issues, mental health and substance abuse policy, FDA black box warnings, personal health records and data confidentiality issues and national healthcare reform. In addition to invited and contributed sessions, the program will offer workshops intended to provide research training and career development in the methods, resources and applications at the forefront of contemporary health policy research. The conference is sponsored by the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association. Funding will be used to help offset some of the conference costs and reduce the financial barrier so as to encourage broader participation in the conference, especially by students and junior researchers. The International Conference on Health Policy Statistics: Striving for Consensus on Methods is a scientific conference that focuses on the interplay between health policy and research methodology. Its specific aim is to create an educational and research forum for statisticians, psychometricians, and other experts in research methodology, to engage policy makers and to exchange and build upon ideas, discuss research needs, and develop solutions to methodological challenges.