Diagnostic improvement engages a variety of activities to achieve excellence. This announcement highlights ten organizations AHRQ funded to establish Diagnostic Safety Centers of Excellence. Their focused efforts will work to improve diagnostic safety and quality. Areas of project focus include use of information technology to improve diagnostic accuracy and teamwork as an improvement strategy.

A lack of consensus on measures for the effectiveness and accuracy of diagnosis represents a gap in improvement methods. This announcement seeks proposals to examine quality measures to motivate excellence in three primary areas of diagnostic concern:  acute vascular events, infections, and cancer. There are no active funding opportunities through this program at this time.

Collaborative strategies can enable individuals and organizations to learn from each other to support patient safety improvement. This web site summarizes projects launched through Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality funding designed for rapid deployment through team-focused learning laboratories to test and apply systems engineering approaches to improve safety in health care.

This publication summarizes a funding initiative to enhance quality and safety in ambulatory care through health information technology.

This announcement highlights projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to reduce incidence of health care–associated infections.

This AHRQ announcement lists projects funded in 2011 to evaluate how simulation can improve patient safety and health care quality.

This AHRQ grantee announcement lists 13 projects funded to demonstrate effective strategies in identifying and addressing risks and in improving processes in ambulatory care.

This announcement describes the 19 projects funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in 2006 that studies the potential of simulation to improve patient safety.

This news release announces the selection of 28 research and demonstration projects eligible for funding from the Canadian Patient Safety Institute research initiative.

Michael Cohen, President of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, has focused his career on preventing medical errors with innovative and elegant solutions. The MacArthur Foundation has selected him as a 2005 Fellow and recipient of a $500,000 "genius grant."

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded more than $8 million to 15 Partnerships in Implementing Patient Safety (PIPS) projects. These projects will implement patient safety interventions and develop toolkits that will be freely available to other health care providers.

In fiscal year 2004, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded nearly $4 million in Patient Safety Challenge Grants to support 13 new practice implementation projects. AHRQ challenged the health care community and other organizations to develop innovative solutions for the harm resulting from medical errors. The tools and procedures that emerged from these projects advanced the translation of research into clinical practice to support the agency's commitment to a medical culture grounded in safety and quality.

This newspaper article reports on plans to develop the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins. The institute is dedicated to improving patient safety and reducing medical errors.