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The (Improvement Science Research Network ) (ISRN) (Principal Investigator: (Kathleen R. Stevens ), EdD, MS, RN, ANEF, FAAN) is a large-scale academic-practice based healthcare research network that was created to accelerate interprofessional improvement science across multiple healthcare sites. In October, 2009, development of the ISRN was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) through funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's "Grand Opportunities" Program (Principal Investigator/Director, Kathleen R. Stevens, EdD, MS, RN, ANEF, FAAN). The ISRN's goal is to fill a national gap in improvement science through a sustained research network for testing system-focused improvement strategies in healthcare. To anchor its interprofessional focus, the ISRN is part of the Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science (NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award) at the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio (UTHSCSA) and is housed in the UTHSCSA School of Nursing. The ISRN provides a national laboratory for investigators from across broad geographical range to study improvement, healthcare delivery systems, dissemination, implementation, translation, safety, and patient outcomes. The ISRN infrastructure supports virtual collaboration in the conduct of network studies through direct engagement of study partners and sites, network study principal investigators, and centralized support. Built upon lessons learned from practice-based research networks (PBRNs), the ISRN is registered with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality as an active PBRN. ==What is Improvement Science?== While Improvement Science is an emerging field, it shares common aspects with other areas of research such as implementation science, translational science, healthcare delivery science, and knowledge translation. These fields are similar in their focus on transforming what is learned from research into common practice to improve care processes and outcomes. "Improvement Science" is proposed as the most inclusive term in this list and is proposed as a specialty within health services research. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Improvement Science Research Network」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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