ECRI Institute's New Diagnostic Technology Boot Camp Offers Practical Strategies for Evidence-based Decision Making
Methodology workshop will provide guidance for assessing diagnostic technologies, including imaging and genetic tests
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., June 18, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Diagnostic technologies, which make up a complex and quickly evolving field, are often the pipeline to more tests and treatment choices. But how can healthcare professionals determine which of the thousands of diagnostic technologies in use have clinical utility and provide the greatest value?
ECRI Institute, an independent nonprofit dedicated to researching the best approaches to improving patient care, will explore issues like this and more in its second annual methodology workshop "Evidence Boot Camp II: Diagnostic Technologies and Genetic Tests."
The interactive boot camp, which will be held July 14-15, 2015, at ECRI Institute's suburban Philadelphia headquarters, is designed to help clinicians, methodologists, and health technology assessment professionals from health plans, hospital and health systems, manufacturers, genetic testing labs, and clinical specialty societies better understand the evidence-based processes for evaluating diagnostic technologies, including imaging and genetic tests.
"With tens of thousands of diagnostic technologies on the market, healthcare professionals are often scrambling to get up to speed quickly on how to make informed usage or coverage decisions," says Vivian H. Coates, vice president, information services and health technology assessment, ECRI Institute. "This course will better prepare them to make sound, evidence-based decisions about these costly, in-demand technologies and applications."
The workshop will address evidence frameworks that guide the analysis of diagnostic tests, conducting evidence searches, assessing risk of bias, performing meta-analysis, grading the evidence, and constructing decision trees for diagnostic tests.
"This year's workshop builds on the guidance we provided at last year's event—the key elements of thorough, objective, evidence-based health technology assessment—and applies it to diagnostic technologies. But you don't have to have participated last year to get value from this workshop," says Karen Schoelles, MD, SM, FACP, director, Evidence-based Practice Center, ECRI Institute. "Our expert staff and attendees will engage in hands-on discussions about evidence-based decision making for this specific class of technology."
This live activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). ECRI Institute is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
ECRI Institute designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity has been approved for 8.5 California State Nursing contact hours by the provider, Debora Simmons, who is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 13677.
Members of ECRI Institute's Health Technology Assessment Information Service can attend at no cost as a benefit of membership. Discounts are available to members of ECRI Institute's SELECTplus™, PriceGuide™, Health Devices™, or ECRI Institute Patient Safety Organization, as well as to employees of government or nonprofit agencies, with registration before June 30.
To learn more, or to register for this on-site event, visit www.ecri.org/bootcamp or contact ECRI Institute by e-mail at [email protected]; by telephone at (610) 825-6000, ext. 5889; by fax at (610) 834-0240; or by mail at 5200 Butler Pike, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462-1298, USA. ECRI's European office can be contacted at [email protected]; ECRI's Malaysian office can be contacted at [email protected]; and ECRI's Middle Eastern office can be contacted at [email protected]. ECRI also offers free resources in our online eNewsletters.
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ECRI Institute (www.ecri.org), a nonprofit organization, dedicates itself to bringing the discipline of applied scientific research to healthcare to discover which medical procedures, devices, drugs, and processes are best to enable improved patient care. As pioneers in this science for nearly 50 years, ECRI Institute marries experience and independence with the objectivity of evidence-based research. Strict conflict-of-interest guidelines ensure objectivity. ECRI Institute is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. ECRI Institute PSO is listed as a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Find ECRI Institute on Facebook (www.facebook.com/ECRIInstitute) and on Twitter (www.twitter.com/ECRI_Institute).
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