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

描述（由申请人提供）：卫生政策统计国际会议：卫生政策分析的定量见解和进展，是一个专注于卫生政策和研究方法之间相互作用的科学会议。其具体目标是为统计学家、心理测量学家和其他研究方法专家创建一个教育和研究论坛，以交流和建立思想，讨论研究需求，并为方法论挑战制定解决方案。计划的会议将审查一系列广泛的主题，这些主题非常符合保健研究和质量局的目标，特别是通过制定、辩论和传播可用于这一目的的最先进的研究方法来促进保健成果。此外，根据美国统计协会最近的倡议，进一步努力使决策者和其他利益攸关方参与卫生政策领域，icps 2010将完全侧重于与政策问题有关的数据的定量分析。虽然受邀的项目将涵盖许多相关的技术领域：因果推理、倾向评分、归算、多处理比较、微观计量方法、生存和纵向数据联合模型、模拟和预测以及新颖的试验设计，但它将在相关卫生政策的背景下进行

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.