IOM Forum on the Science of Health Care Quality Improvement and Implementation’s Workshop on the Conduct of Quality Improvement and Implementation Research

May 24-25, 2007

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

FORUM ON THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH CARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION CONDUCT OF QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION RESEARCH

WORKSHOP AGENDA – PUBLIC

May 24-25, 2007

THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2007 - Auditorium

8:30 am           Welcome 

                       Major persistent quality problems (Audio File)

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

9:00 am             Major problems in spreading health care quality

•  Paul Plsek, Directed Creativity (Presentation) 

10:00 am           Approaches to researching health care quality improvement: State of the science (Audio File)

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

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  (Audio File)

•   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 (Audio File)

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

Research

• William Rouse, Georgia Institute of Technology (Presentation)
• Newton Margulies, University of California, Irvine (Presentation)
• Other observers
• Guenter Risse, University of Washington (Audio File)

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  (Audio File)

Research

• how to get new methods accepted
• strengthen research methods

—Moderator: Marita Titler (Audio File)

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 (Auido File)

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 (Presentation)
•           Ignatius Bau, The California Endowment

9:30 am             Moving forward: Opportunities for change

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

Discussion

10:30 am           General reactions 

11:00 am           Adjourn