12:30 pm

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

• Identify three high-priority, effective QI strategies as basis for developing a spread agenda

• Identify three high-priority, unanswered questions about QI strategies as basis for developing 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

3:15 pm

Break

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, Institute for Healthcare Improvement

• Research

• How to get new methods accepted

• Strengthen research methods

• Moderator: Marita Titler, University of Iowa

4:45 pm

Reconvene with larger group

• Report answers

• Discussion