Promoting Quality of Care for Publicly Insured Children

描述：(申请人提供)本次全国邀请性会议的总体目的是通过促进将最近的研究转化为实践和政策来提高公共项目服务的儿童护理质量。这次会议主要是一次传播会议，有四个目标。第一个目标是总结从研究和国家经验中已知的关于质量议程的四个关键方面，即质量衡量、质量改进、卫生信息技术和按业绩支付。第二个目标是让研究用户和利益攸关方参与讨论下一步的必要步骤和战略，以加速将这项研究传播和采用为政策和实践。第三个目标是确定仍未得到解答的关键研究问题。最终目标是向公共和私营部门的利益攸关方以及研究人员广泛传播这项活动的成果。

DESCRIPTION: (Provided by the Applicant) The overall purpose of this national invitational conference is to improve the quality of care for children served by public programs by promoting the translation of recent research into practice and policy. The conference is primarily a dissemination conference and has four objectives. The first objective is to summarize what is known from research and state experience about four key aspects of the quality agenda, namely quality measurement, quality improvement, health information technology and pay for performance. The second objective is to engage research users and stakeholders in a discussion of the next steps and strategies necessary to accelerate the diffusion and adoption of this research into policy and practice. The third objective is to identify key research questions that remain unanswered. The final objective is to disseminate the results of this activity broadly to stakeholders in the public and the private sectors as well as researchers.