ASSESSING HEALTH CARE SETTINGS TO IMPROVE QUALITY

我们建议召开一个为期2.5天的会议，题为“评估医疗机构的组织特征以提高护理质量”。本次会议将结构，以促进我们的理解和测量的卫生保健设置，这些组织的特点，是经得起提高护理质量。拟议会议的具体目标是：1.审查并完善一个拟议的概念框架，该框架描述了卫生保健环境的重要组织特征及其与护理质量和患者结局的关系。2.确定或促进发展的“工具箱”的措施，以评估重要的组织特征的卫生保健设置。3.回顾当前组织评估在正在进行或最近完成的研究中的应用，以及它们对理解和设计更有效的变革过程以提高护理质量的影响。4.使用的概念框架和案例的例子，确定卫生保健环境和适当的过程和干预措施，以提高护理质量的可修改的方面。会议规划委员会召集了一批令人印象深刻的国家和地方与会者，作为拟议的发言人、讨论者或与会者。这些人来自不同的学科，包括家庭医学，普通内科，组织发展，心理学，人类学，护理和公共卫生。与会者将带来丰富的知识和经验，在应用多学科方法来了解医疗保健环境，以提高质量。会议论文集和专著都将出版，以传播支持这一研究领域的理论和方法。

We propose to convene a 2.5-day conference titled, Assessing Organizational Features of Health Care Settings to Improve Quality of Care. This conference will be structured to advance our understanding and measurement of those organizational characteristics of health care settings that are amenable to improve the quality of care. Specific objectives of the proposed conference are to: 1. Review and refine a proposed conceptual framework that describes important organizational features of health care settings and their relationship to quality of care and patient outcomes. 2. Identify or foster development of a "tool box" of measures for assessing important organizational features of health care settings. 3. Review current applications of organizational assessment in ongoing or recently completed research, and their implications for understanding and designing more effective change processes to improve quality of care. 4. Using the conceptual framework and case examples, identify modifiable aspects of health care environments and appropriate processes and interventions to improve the quality of care. The conference planning committee has assembled an impressive group of national and local participants to serve as proposed speakers, discussants or conference participants. These people come from a variety of disciplines including family medicine, general internal medicine, organizational development, psychology, anthropology, nursing and public health. Conference participants will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience in the application of multidisciplinary approaches for understanding health care settings to improve quality. Both Conference Proceedings and a Monograph will be published to disseminate both the theory and methods that support this area of research.