EXPERT PANEL MEETING ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF CONTINUOUS QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

专家小组会议推进持续质量改进的科学

• 批准号: 7753123
• 负责人: LISA V RUBENSTEIN
• 金额: $ 1.54万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2010-12-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7753123
• 关键词: EXPERT; PANEL; MEETING; ADVANCING; SCIENCE

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Progress toward reliable, effective and efficient continuous quality improvement (CQI) will be more rapid if supported by a sophisticated CQI scientific field. A consensus finding conference of key stakeholders in quality improvement will provide much needed input for research and practice. The 1.5 day meeting is planned for August 05 and 06 2009 and will take place at RAND, Santa Monica, CA. The meeting is part of an ongoing initiative that uses rigorous scientific evidence review, in combination with established sets of quality criteria, to identify and assess current scientific publications on CQI. Our objective is to engage an evidence review panel comprised of influential expert stakeholders to achieve consensus on a checklist of key features (the minimum quality criteria set, or MQCS) that, when incorporated into CQI manuscripts, will indicate acceptable study and manuscript quality. The MQCS will thus be useful for writing, reviewing, and assessing CQI studies. While the focus of the checklist is on publication, we expect CQI practitioners to use it for planning data collection. The MQCS will thus serve as an important link bridging CQI science and practice. In preparation for this meeting we will develop and validate strategies for the identification of CQI studies, and contrast definitions of CQI. Established quality criteria will be identified and applied to a representative sample of articles that empirically evaluate CQI interventions. This will document the level of adherence to these criteria and facilitate analysis of the relationship between criteria and study outcomes. The findings will support the consensus finding process for the selection of essential quality criteria captured by the MQCS. We will apply consensus finding techniques that have led to many successful outcomes of RAND evidence review panels in the past. Funding is already in place for the extensive preparation for this important and influential meeting. The meeting deliverable is the MQCS checklist. Further deliverables are validated electronic search strategies for identifying CQI literature; screening and assessment tools; publications on the searches, the level of adherence to the MQCS criteria in current literature and the relationships between quality criteria and CQI study outcomes. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Other Project Information, line item 7: Quality improvement intervention practitioners and evaluators seek to improve public health by engaging healthcare organizations and their providers in developing and implementing better approaches to care delivery. This project aims to establish a checklist of key features that, when incorporated into evaluations, will indicate acceptable study and publication quality which in turn will help to assess the existing evidence and allow recommendations to improve public health. A meeting with influential experts and stakeholders and contemporary consensus finding methods are necessary to achieve useful criteria.

描述（由申请人提供）：如果由复杂的CQI科学领域支持，朝着可靠，有效和有效的持续质量改进（CQI）方面的进展将更加迅速。在质量改进方面的主要利益相关者的共识会议会议将为研究和实践提供急需的投入。计划于2009年8月5日和06年8月5日举行的1.5天会议，将在加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡的兰德举行。这次会议是一项正在进行的倡议的一部分，该计划使用严格的科学证据审查，结合既定的质量标准组合，以识别和评估有关CQI的当前科学出版物。我们的目标是参与由有影响力的专家利益相关者组成的证据审查小组，以在关键特征清单（最低质量标准集或MQC）的清单上达成共识，该清单将其纳入CQI手稿时，将表明可接受的研究和手稿质量。因此，MQC将有助于编写，审查和评估CQI研究。尽管清单的重点是出版物，但我们希望CQI从业人员将其用于计划数据收集。因此，MQC将成为桥接CQI科学和实践的重要链接。为了准备这次会议，我们将制定并验证识别CQI研究的策略，以及CQI的对比定义。确定的质量标准将被识别并应用于经验评估CQI干预措施的代表性样本。这将记录遵守这些标准的水平，并促进对标准与研究结果之间关系的分析。这些发现将支持选择MQC捕获的基本质量标准的共识查找过程。我们将采用共识的发现技术，这些技术已导致了过去许多兰德证据审查小组的成功结果。为这次重要且有影响力的会议做出了广泛的准备，已经为此提供了资金。会议可交付的是MQCS清单。进一步的可交付成果是验证的电子搜索策略，以识别CQI文献；筛选和评估工具；有关搜索的出版物，对当前文献中MQCS标准的遵守程度以及质量标准与CQI研究成果之间的关系。 公共卫生相关性：其他项目信息，第7项：质量改进干预从业者和评估人员试图通过吸引医疗保健组织及其提供者来开发和实施更好的护理方法来改善公共卫生。该项目旨在建立关键功能的清单，并在评估中纳入评估时，将表明可接受的研究和出版质量，这将有助于评估现有证据并允许建议改善公共卫生。与有影响力的专家和利益相关者以及当代共识发现方法的会议对于实现有用的标准是必要的。