Pediatric Quality Improvement Methods, Research and Evaluation Conference, Advanc

描述（由申请人提供）：项目摘要/摘要2012年4月27日，在医疗保健研究质量机构（AHRQ）和参与者注册费的资助下，第二届年度会议“推进儿童医疗保健研究的质量改进科学”与儿科学术团体会议一起举行。会议由学术儿科协会（阿帕），学术普通儿科的专业之家和西奈山医学院的健康证据与政策部门赞助，该部门认可了7.75小时的CME会议。150名与会者对会议的评价为优秀（5分制为4.21分），并强烈表示未来仍需要类似的会议。因此，为了响应PA-09-231，我们建议举行第三届为期一天的方法会议，设计，实施和传播质量改进（QI）研究。根据2012年的会议评估，我们将增加分组会议的数量，并将包括与会者建议的高兴趣的新主题领域以及前两次会议的高评价会议。互动分组会议将包括：准实验方法，包括：集群随机试验，阶梯楔形设计和中断时间序列;在QI研究中使用统计过程控制; QI研究中的成本效益分析;桥接经典生物统计方法和QI研究; QI研究中的先进回归方法;开发QI评估研究的质量指标;获得QI研究资金;出版和传播QI研究成果。根据2012年评价提出的建议，分组会议将分两个轨道举行，一个是介绍性的，另一个是高级的。每个参与者将被要求在注册时选择其中一个轨道。 每个轨道将提供3或4个主题在上午的会议和4在下午的会议。新的计划将是一个全体会议的学术职业发展的QI研究人员，将包括成功的高级，中级和初级教师有足够的时间进行提问和回答。拟议的会议补充和促进AHRQ的核心研究和实施活动，为机构利益相关者和其他人提供一个机制，以（1）提高他们对如何应用最先进的QI研究方法的理解，以改善儿科护理，（2）传播和实施QI研究信息，以加强对医疗保健服务的评估，（3）提高儿科保健的质量和效果。正如我们以前所做的那样，我们将通过在2013年儿科学术学会会议（2013年5月3日）前一天安排会议来促进广泛的出席。会议的成果将包括一系列与儿科QI研究的方法学问题相关的白色论文，这些论文将通过阿帕网站和适当的出版物传播。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Project Summary/Abstract On April 27th, 2012, with funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ) and participant registration fees, the 2nd annual conference on "Advancing Quality Improvement Science for Children's Health Care Research," was held in conjunction with the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting. The conference was sponsored by the Academic Pediatric Association (APA), the professional home for academic general pediatrics and by the Department of Health Evidence & Policy of Mount Sinai School of Medicine, which accredited the conference for 7.75 hours of CME. The 150 conference attendees overwhelmingly rated the conference as excellent (4.21 on a 5 point scale) and strongly indicated the ongoing need for similar future conferences. Thus, in response to PA-09-231 we propose to hold a third annual one-day methods conference on designing, implementing, and disseminating quality improvement (QI) research. Based on 2012 conference evaluations, we will increase the number of breakout sessions offered and will include new topic areas of high interest suggested by attendees as well as highly rated sessions from the first two conferences. Interactive breakout sessions will include: quasi-experimental approaches including: cluster randomized trials, stepped wedge designs and interrupted time series; use of statistical process control in QI research; cost effectiveness analysis in QI research; bridging classical biostatistical methods and QI research; advanced regression methods in QI research; developing quality metrics for QI evaluation research; obtaining QI research funding; and publishing and disseminating QI research results. Responding to suggestions from the 2012 evaluations, the breakout sessions will be offered in two tracks, one introductory and the other advanced. Each participant will be asked to select one of these tracks at the time of registration. Each track will offer 3 or 4 topics in the morning session and 4 in the afternoon session. New to the program will be a plenary session on academic career development for QI researchers that will include successful senior, mid- level, and junior faculty with ample time for questions and answers. The proposed conference complements and promotes AHRQ's core research and implementation activities by providing a mechanism for Agency stakeholders and others to (1) enhance their understanding of how to apply state-of-the art QI research methods in order to improve pediatric care, (2) disseminate and implement QI research information to enhance evaluation of health care delivery, and (3) improve the quality and effectiveness of pediatric health care. As we have done previously, we will promote broad attendance by scheduling the meeting one day before the 2013 Pediatric Academic Societies meeting (May 3rd, 2013). Products of the meeting will include a series of white papers related to methodological issues in pediatric QI research, which will be disseminated through the APA website and appropriate publications.