SETTING CRITERIA AND AN AGENDA FOR QI RESEARCH

会议设定标准和质量改进（QI）研究议程的目的是：1。发展概念框架，将QI研究区分为医疗保健中的一门学科，并为QI研究人员提供理由，使其成为学术追求的途径和在领先的医学和医疗保健期刊上发表文章的理由。2. 定义方法严谨性的标准，使审稿人能够批判性地评估QI研究计划的贡献，并确定手稿是否适合发表。3. 制定研究议程，揭示迫切需要解决的问题和优先事项，以便发现能够部署和教授QI的原则，从而提高医疗保健服务的价值。背景与意义。在先前的“提高卫生保健质量和价值国际科学研讨会”上，演讲者和卫生保健质量研究人员的听众对卫生保健质量研究的严谨性和缺乏指导卫生保健质量研究新兴学科的框架表示担忧。研究界的这些关切为1999年年度科学专题讨论会期间的一次特别会议提供了动力。会议。QI研究的领导者将撰写论文并召开会议，内容包括准实验设计、QI研究中的测量、QI统计、IRB和QI研究、临床流行病学的视角、QI研究的概念框架、实用科学、QI研究的评估和出版指南，以及为与QI研究相关的紧迫优先问题制定议程。产品。会议和相关材料的制定是为了解决将QI研究区分为一门学科（目标一）、QI研究的方法严谨性标准（目标二）和QI研究的研究议程（目标三）的概念框架。会议记录将作为《医疗保健》杂志的特别增刊出版。评估。研讨会和议程研讨会将使用标准的医疗保健改进研究所（IHI）评估流程。传播。主要的传播手段是向订户提供医疗服务。此外，手稿摘要和相关材料将在国际卫生研究所网站的科学专题讨论会一栏下公布。

The aims of the conference Setting Criteria and an Agenda for Quality Improvement (QI) Research are to: 1. Develop the conceptual framework that distinguishes QI research as a discipline in healthcare and that provides QI researchers with justification as a pathway of academic pursuit and a rationale for publication in leading medical and healthcare journals. 2. Define standards of methodologic rigor that enable reviewers to critically appraise the contribution of a QI research initiative and determine whether a manuscript is suitable for publication. 3. Set a research agenda that reveals the burning issues and top priorities for discovery of the principles that enable the deployment and teaching of QI which enhance the value of healthcare services. Background and significance. The audience of presenters and QI researchers at prior meetings of the International Scientific Symposium on Improving Quality and Value in Health Care voiced concern over the rigor of QI research and the lack of a framework to guide the emerging discipline of healthcare QI research. These concerns of the research community provide the impetus for a special conference during the 1999 annual Scientific Symposium. Conference. Leaders in QI research will compose manuscripts and hold a conference on quasi-experimental designs, measurement in QI research, QI statistics, IRB and QI research, the perspective of clinical epidemiology, a conceptual framework for QI research, a pragmatic science, guidelines for appraisal and publication of QI research, and setting an agenda for the urgent priority issues related to QI research. Product. The conference and related materials are formulated to address the conceptual framework that distinguishes QI research as a discipline (aim one), the standards of methodologic rigor for QI research (aim two), and a research agenda for QI research (aim three). The proceedings of the conference will be published as a special supplement to the journal Medical Care. Evaluation. The Symposium and Agenda Workshop will use the standard Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) evaluation process. Dissemination. The primary means of dissemination is the distribution of Medical Care to its subscribers. In addition, the abstracts of the manuscripts and related material will be posted on the IHI Web site under the Scientific Symposium section.