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

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，心理测量学家和研究方法的其他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，并制定方法挑战的解决方案。计划中的会议审查了广泛的主题，这些主题非常符合医疗保健研究和质量机构的目标，特别是通过开发，辩论和传播可用于此目的的最先进的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使决策者和其他利益攸关方参与卫生政策竞技场而采取的举措，2010年国际卫生政策研究中心将完全侧重于对与政策问题有关的数据进行定量分析。虽然邀请的项目将涵盖许多相关的技术领域：因果推断、倾向评分、插补、多治疗比较、微观计量经济学方法、生存和纵向数据的联合模型、模拟和预测以及新颖的试验设计，但它将在相关卫生政策的背景下进行。 这些领域包括比较有效性研究、设定研究优先事项、提供者实践绩效和报销问题、心理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保健改革。除了邀请和贡献的会议，该计划将提供研讨会，旨在提供研究培训和职业发展的方法，资源和应用在当代卫生政策研究的前沿。会议由美国统计协会卫生政策统计科主办。资金将用于帮助抵消部分会议费用，减少财务障碍，以鼓励更广泛地参与会议，特别是学生和初级研究人员。卫生政策统计国际会议：努力就方法达成共识是一个科学会议，重点是卫生政策和研究方法之间的相互作用。其具体目标是为统计学家、心理计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，让决策者参与进来，交流和借鉴想法，讨论研究需求，并制定方法挑战的解决方案。

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.