Pediatric Hospital Epidemiology and Outcomes research Training (PHEOT) Program

描述(申请人提供)：费城儿童医院(CHOP)儿科医院流行病学和结果研究培训(PHEOT)计划是一个为期两年的研究奖学金，旨在为医生提供医院流行病学和结果研究方面的培训。通过正规课程和指导研究项目的结合，学员将发展与儿科医院护理相关的比较有效性研究、质量衡量、严重程度调整和经济评估方面的专业知识。PHEOT计划将培训下一代临床科学家，他们将帮助我们了解如何最好地衡量和改善结果，确保患者安全，并管理住院儿童的成本。学员将受益于CHOP‘s Joseph Stokes Jr.的两个中心的联合资源。该研究所、结果研究中心和儿科临床有效性中心，以及一系列用于评估和改进医疗保健流程和结果的“实验室”，包括儿科高级护理服务、普通儿科住院服务、模拟、高级教育和创新中心以及质量和患者安全中心。所有研究员都将完成研究设计和生物统计学方面的硕士课程，作为临床流行病学和生物统计学中心提供的临床流行病学理学硕士学位的一部分，或通过RWJ临床学者计划和宾夕法尼亚大学伦纳德·戴维斯卫生经济研究所提供的卫生政策研究科学硕士学位的一部分。研究员将被指派一个由经验丰富的方法、内容和生物统计学导师组成的顾问团队，他们将监督受训人员成功完成和发表至少一个研究项目。PHEOT研究员还将受益于一系列专业发展活动，包括正在进行的工作会议、教授学术医学技能的研讨会系列、专门针对儿科流行病学和结果研究的方法讲座系列，以及在国家会议上介绍研究的机会。PHEOT项目的毕业生将准备进行NIH路线图中迫切要求的转化性研究-将初步临床研究的结果转化为医院改进的临床实践和健康决策。 公共卫生相关性：住院儿科迅速变化的趋势给医院提供者和医疗保健系统带来了新的和重大的后勤、财务和道德挑战。对医疗保健专业人员进行以医院为基础的流行病学和结果研究方面的培训，对于美国儿科住院护理的持续卓越至关重要。PHEOT计划将培训下一代临床科学家，他们将帮助我们了解如何最好地衡量和改善结果，确保患者安全，并管理住院儿童的成本。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Pediatric Hospital Epidemiology and Outcomes Research Training (PHEOT) Program at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is a 2-year research fellowship designed to provide physicians with training in hospital epidemiology and outcomes research. Through a combination of formal coursework and mentored research projects, trainees will develop expertise in comparative effectiveness research, quality measurement, severity adjustment and economic evaluation as they relate to pediatric hospital care. The PHEOT program will train the next generation of clinical scientists who will help us to understand how to best measure and improve outcomes, assure patient safety, and manage costs for hospitalized children. Trainees will benefit from the combined resources of two Centers at CHOP'S Joseph Stokes Jr. Research Institute; The Center for Outcomes Research and the Center for Pediatric Clinical Effectiveness, as well as a rich array of "laboratories" for evaluating and improving health care processes and outcomes, including the Pediatric Advanced Care Service, the General Pediatrics Inpatient Service, the Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation, and the Center for Quality and Patient Safety (COPS). All fellows will complete Masters level coursework in study design and biostatistics as part of either the Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) degree offered through the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, or the Masters of Science in Health Policy Research (MSHP) degree offered through the RWJ Clinical Scholars Program and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at Penn. Fellows will be assigned an advisory team consisting of seasoned methodology, content, and biostatistics mentors who will supervise the trainee in the successful completion and publication of at least one research project. PHEOT fellows will also benefit from a host of professional development activities, including works-in-progress sessions, a seminar series to teach academic medicine skills, a methods lecture series specifically tailored to pediatric epidemiology and outcomes research, and opportunities to present research at national meetings. Graduates of the PHEOT program will be prepared to perform the translational research so urgently called for in the NIH Roadmap- to translate the results of preliminary clinical research into improved clinical practice and health decision making in the hospital. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Rapidly changing trends in inpatient pediatrics present new and significant logistical, financial, and ethical challenges to hospital providers and the healthcare system. Training of healthcare professionals in hospital- based epidemiology and outcomes research is critical to the continued excellence of pediatric inpatient care in the United States. The PHEOT program will train the next generation of clinician scientists who will help us to understand how to best measure and improve outcomes, assure patient safety, and manage costs for hospitalized children.