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Agenda: Conduct of Quality Improvement and Implementation Research

CONDUCT OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH

WORKSHOP AGENDA – PUBLIC

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, 100 Academy, Irvine, CA 92619

May 24-25, 2007

THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2007 - Auditorium

8:30 am

Welcome 

Major persistent quality problems

  • Value perspective – Paul O’Neill, Forum co-chair
  • Patient perspective – Denise Dougherty, AHRQ

9:00 am  

Major problems in spreading health care quality

  • Paul Plsek, Directed Creativity 

10:00 am 

Approaches to researching health care quality improvement: State of the science

  • Kaveh Shojania, University of Ottawa
  • Paul Heidenreich, Stanford University
  • Jeremy Grimshaw, Ottawa Health Research Institute
  • Trisha Greenhalgh, University College London
  • Brian Mittman, Veterans Administration
  • William Tierney, Indiana University

Discussion

Moderator: Marshall Chin, University of Chicago

12:30 pm          

What we know and don’t know about effective QI strategies: Developing agendas for    research/evaluation and spread 

  •  Identify 3 high priority effective QI strategies as basis for developing a spread agenda
  •  Identify 3 high priority unanswered questions about QI strategies as basis for developinig a research/evaluation agenda

1:30 pm

Spread and implementation of quality improvement research findings

  • Spread and implementation of research findings
  • Paul Wallace, Kaiser Permanente 
  • David Pryor, Aetna 

Research

  • William Rouse, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Newton Margulies, University of California, Irvine
  • Other observers
  • Guenter Risse, University of Washington

3:30 pm           

Breakout groups (discuss what we need to know)

Spread and implementation of research findings

  • strategies for change in various settings
  • accounting for context

Moderator: Andrea Kabcenell 

Research

  • how to get new methods accepted
  • strengthen research methods

Moderator: Marita Titler

4:45 pm

Reconvene with larger groups

  • Report answers
  • Discussion

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2007 – Huntington Room

7:45 am            

Revisit themes from Day 1

  • Tom Boat, Forum co-chair

8:00 am            

Reactions panel: Strategic opportunities

Ethics

  • Jeffrey Cohen, HRP Associates, Inc.(Presentation)

Research training

  • Steve Shortell, University of California, Berkeley

Publication community

  • Cathy DeAngelis, JAMA
  • Brian Mittman, Implementation Science

Funding

  •           Denise Dougherty, AHRQ
  •           Ignatius Bau, The California Endowment 

9:30 am   

Moving forward: Opportunities for change

  • William Rouse, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Paul Wallace, Kaiser Permanente

Discussion

10:30 am          

General reactions 

11:00 am          

Adjourn

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