Annual Symposium for Pediatric Health Services Research

描述(由申请人提供)：目前我们对儿童和青少年健康服务的理解存在很大差距。卫生保健研究和质量机构(AHRQ)呼吁在成果、质量、成本、使用和获取方面进行新的研究，以改善对儿童的卫生保健服务。他们还承认，有必要“滋养”正在进行与儿童相关的卫生服务研究的调查人员。目前，专门从事儿科保健服务研究的研究人员可以参加的会议数量有限。可用的选项在格式上非常传统，规模很大 在规模上，可能不会只专注于儿科保健服务的研究。因此，我们提议举行一次年度研讨会(即儿科卫生服务研究年度研讨会)，会议将：(1)聚集已有地位的儿科卫生服务研究人员，讨论该领域最新、最前沿的研究；(2)提供联网 (3)为初级儿科保健服务研究人员提供职业发展和指导，(4)编写关于儿科保健服务研究未来方向的前瞻性白皮书，这些白皮书将使用传统传播战略和社交媒体等更先进的方法进行传播。在我们于2011年秋季在印第安纳大学医学院举办的第一届年度研讨会取得成功的基础上，我们未来的研讨会将在全体会议和小组分组会议之间取得平衡。我们还将提供大量建立联系和非正式对话的机会。会议还将创新其内容的传播方式，利用传统的技术，如期刊增刊出版，以及更先进的内容传播方法，包括播客、更新和博客。儿科卫生服务研究年度研讨会将侧重于研究发展(即界定卫生保健实践和提供中的问题或挑战并制定研究议程或战略的会议)以及研究培训、基础设施和职业发展(即将教职员工、受训者和学生与利益相关方聚集在一起以开发、分享或传播研究产品、经验、课程、教学大纲或培训能力的会议)。研讨会将每年提供一次引人注目和内容丰富的会议，讨论AHRQ感兴趣的不同领域。我们建议涵盖的领域包括儿科比较有效性研究(2013)、以儿科为重点的卫生保健创新和新兴领域(2014)和以儿科为重点的卫生信息技术(2015)。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A large gap currently exists in our understanding of health services for children and adolescents. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has called for new research in the areas of outcomes, quality, cost, use, and access in order to improve health care services for children. They have also acknowledged the need to "nourish" investigators who are conducting child-relevant health services research. Currently a limited number of conferences are available to investigators that specialize in pediatric health services research. The options that are available are very traditional in their format, large-scale in their size, and may not focus exclusively on pediatric health services research. Therefore, we are proposing that an annual symposium (i.e., Annual Symposium for Pediatric Health Services Research) be held that will: (1) Bring together established and young pediatric health services investigators to discuss the most current, cutting edge research in the field, (2) Offer networking opportunities across institutions that will lead to multi-institutional pediatric health services research collaborations, (3) Provide career development and mentorship for junior pediatric health services researchers, and (4) Produce forward-looking white papers on future directions of pediatric health services research that will be disseminated using traditional communication strategies and more advanced methods such as social media. Building on the success of our 1st Annual Symposium held in the fall of 2011 at the Indiana University School of Medicine, our future symposiums will offer a balance between plenary and small-group breakout sessions. We will also provide numerous opportunities for networking and informal conversations. The meeting will also be innovative in how its content is disseminated utilizing traditional techniques such as journal supplement publication, as well as more advanced methods of content dissemination including podcasts, updates, and blogs. The Annual Symposium for Pediatric Health Services Research will focus on research development (i.e., conferences where issues or challenges in the practice and delivery of health care are defined and a research agenda or strategy for studying them is developed) as well as research training, infrastructure and career development (i.e., conferences where faculty, trainees and students are brought together with stakeholders to develop, share or disseminate research products, experiences, curricula, syllabi, or training competencies). The symposium will provide a compelling and informative meeting covering a different AHRQ interest area each year. The areas we propose to cover are pediatric comparative effectiveness research (2013), pediatric-focused health care innovations and emerging areas (2014) and pediatric-focused health information technology (2015).