Connecting the ivory tower to main street: setting research priorities for real-world impact.
Health care decisionmakers face increasing pressure to use health care resources more efficiently, but the information they need to assess policy options often is unavailable or not disseminated in a useful form. Findings from stakeholder meetings and a survey of private-sector health care decisionmakers in California begin to identify high-priority issues, the perceived adequacy of current information, and preferred formats and other desired attributes of research. This is a first step in establishing a systematic approach to linking the information priorities of private-sector decisionmakers with those who fund and conduct research.
Schur
Claudia L
CL
Center for Health Research and Policy, Social and Scientific Systems (SSS), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. cschur@s-3.com
Berk
Marc L
ML
Silver
Lauren E
LE
Yegian
Jill M
JM
O'Grady
Michael J
MJ
D002140:California; D003657:Decision Making; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006292:Health Priorities; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007449:Investments; D017146:Models, Organizational; D017149:Private Sector