Grant: Planning Grants - Priority Announcement: Integrated Knowledge Translation

The proposed meeting activity will build on a current study. We are conducting a systematic review of randomised controlled trials that include an economic evaluation of advanced practice nurses (APNs), funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Given our longstanding familiarity with this literature, we do not anticipate finding any rigorous economic evaluations of APNs. First, we are identifying, critiquing, and summarizing all trials of APNs that seek to evaluate their economic impact; second, we are conducting an extensive search of the published and grey literature of theoretical papers that have been written about evaluating the economic efficiency of APNs; and third, we are preparing a draft economic framework for future economic evaluations of APNs. The requested funding will allow us to bring together interested health economists and health human resource planners to discuss the findings from our literature summaries and refine the draft economic framework for future economic evaluations of APNs. Building on the results of the systematic review and draft framework, this 1.5 day meeting will begin with a summary of what is known and not known about the economic efficiency of APNs followed by a summary of theory regarding the components of APN economic evaluations. The goal of the meeting will be to review and refine a framework for future economic evaluations of APN roles. The meeting will be organized and hosted by the CHSRF/CIHR Chair Program in Advanced Practice Nursing. Supplemental funding for the meeting is provided through the budget for the systematic review of the economic analysis of APNs, funded by the Nursing Secretariat of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. The meeting is planned for September 19 & 20, 2011 in Hamilton, Ontario with additional knowledge transfer activities to follow the meeting.