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Announcement

APA Quality Improvement 2013
May 3, 2013
Grand Hyatt
Washington, D.C.
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QI Bibliography

AHI 2013 Research Conference - Call for Abstracts

Pediatric Hospital Medicine 2013 - August 1-4, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana

2013 Integrating Quality Meeting: Improving Value and Educating for Quality

Toolkit for Reduction of Clostridium difficile Infections
Through Antimicrobial Stewardship.

Boston University School of Public Health. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 2012. AHRQ Publication No. 120082EF.

This toolkit will help hospitals reduce Clostridium difficile infections by developing a stewardship initiative to prevent antimicrobial misuse.

Please click here for the tool kit.

AAMC
Advancing Effectiveness Research and Implementation Science in our Own Backyards: AAMC / Donaghue Grant Opportunity for Academic Medical Centers
April 23, 2013 1:00 EST

Please join Dr Ann Bonham, Chief Scientific Officer of the AAMC and Dr. Lynne Garner, President of the Donaghue Foundation as they discuss a new collaborative research opportunity initiated by the AAMC and the Donaghue Foundation. The goal of the collaborative opportunity is to stimulate innovative research that has the potential for a near term impact to improve health through multidisciplinary partnerships among research communities, teaching hospitals, and health systems that utilize evidence to improve quality, safety, equity, and system effectiveness. The announcement and application instructions will be available on May 1st, 2013 on the following website www.aamc.org/initiatives/rocc/. This is your opportunity to learn firsthand about the RFP and ask questions of its authors. Please register for this webcast today.

Past Events

The CHIPRA Pediatric Quality Measures Program SNAC will hold a public meeting on Sep. 12, 2012 in Bethesda, MD, to complete their review of children's healthcare quality measures for potential use as improved core measures for voluntary reporting by State Medicaid and CHIP programs and/or use in other public and private programs. The meeting agenda and location are available at http://www.ahrq.gov/chipra/snacag0912.htm. The full list of measures reviewed this summer and fall by the SNAC is available at http://www.ahrq.gov/chipra/pqmpmeasures12.htm

Other updates have been made to the AHRQ CHIPRA site.
www.ahrq.gov/chipra
Special Issue of Health Services Research on Mixed Methods in Healthcare Delivery System Research
HSR Call for Papers
Submission deadline: October 15, 2012

APA Quality Improvement Meeting
April 27, 2012
2nd Annual
Advancing Quality Improvement
Science for
Children's Healthcare Research

Boston, Massachusetts

QI Program & Presentations
QI Bibliography
QI Supplemental Bibliography

Funding for this conference was made possible in part by grant 1R13 HS21397-01 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
Call for Abstracts - Evidence for Informing the Next Generation of Quality Improvement Initiatives
Educational Resources from Academy for Healthcare Improvement

Topics and Events

Enhancing Implementation Science Seminar
Was held: Thursday, June 9 12:00pm-1:00pm ET
Evaluation Examples and Guidance for Study Design
by Carol VanDeusen Lukas, Ed.D. and Brian Mittman, Ph.D.

Here is the link to the flash video of the presentation:
http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researchers/cyber_seminars/archives/eis-060911.cfm

HERC Health Economics Seminar
Was Held: Wednesday, June 8 2:00pm-3:15pm ET
Is Physician Organization Related to Efficiency and Patient Outcomes?
by Todd Wagner, Ph.D.

Here is the link to the flash video of the presentation:
http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researchers/cyber_seminars/archives/hmcs-060811.cfm

Join us for ongoing Q&A discussion at our SharePoint site located at
http://vaww.infoshare.va.gov/sites/HERC/Lists/CyberCourse%2002102010/AllItems.aspx

David Cooperberg Integrating EBM and QI Education Curricula Materials

Improving Quality Improvement -- APA Conference for Pediatric Quality Improvement Methods, Research and Evaluation
April 29, 2011
8-5 p.m.
Hyatt Regency Downtown
Denver, CO
Meeting Materials

Funding Opportunity Announcement
Researching Implementation and Change while Improving Quality (R18)
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-08-136.html