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The AHRQ PSNet Collection comprises an extensive selection of resources relevant to the patient safety community. These resources come in a variety of formats, including literature, research, tools, and Web sites. Resources are identified using the National Library of Medicine’s Medline database, various news and content aggregators, and the expertise of the AHRQ PSNet editorial and technical teams.

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Understanding and Improving Diagnostic Safety in Ambulatory Care.

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research; August 22, 2023.

The articulation of diagnostic error in the ambulatory setting is emerging. These newly released funding announcements seek proposals that focus on understanding the factors contributing to diagnostic error and strategies to improve diagnostic safety in the ambulatory care environment. The application deadline for both opportunities has passed.

Notice of Intent to Publish Funding Opportunity Announcements to Understand and Improve Diagnostic Safety in Ambulatory Care.

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Research and Quality; July 27, 2023. Notice Number NOT-HS-23-018.

Diagnostic errors occur in all settings of care and are a primary challenge to safe health care. This announcement raises awareness of two upcoming funding opportunities for understanding and improving diagnostic safety in diverse ambulatory care environments. The funding will target the incidence and contributory factors of diagnostic error within the array of ambulatory care services and the development of strategies and interventions to improve diagnostic safety in ambulatory care.

Challenge Competition: Impact of Patient Safety Tools.

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. 2023.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) offers many practical tools and resources to help healthcare organizations, providers, and others make patient care safer These tools are based on research, and they can assist staff in hospitals, emergency departments, long-term care facilities, and ambulatory settings to prevent avoidable complications of care. The purpose of this challenge is to elicit new narratives of how AHRQ toolkits are being used. Up to ten winners will receive $10,000 each. Submissions are due October 27, 2023.

Diagnostic Centers of Excellence (X01 Clinical Trial Not Allowed).

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PAR-23-120. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health; March 7, 2023

Approaching diagnosis as a team activity is seen as a key approach to diagnostic effectiveness. This notice highlights a funding opportunity to launch Diagnostic Centers of Excellence to improve diagnosis of undiagnosed and unknown disease and research to inform improvement. The application period is now closed.

Dissemination and Implementation of Equity-Focused Evidence-Based Interventions in Healthcare Delivery Systems (R18).

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. February 15, 2023. RFA-HS-23-002.

Equity improvements are gaining increased traction as a patient safety strategy. This announcement seeks proposals that would use dissemination and implementation science to fill evidence gaps critical to the development, adaption, implementation, and evaluation of equity-focused evidence-based interventions to accelerate health equity within healthcare delivery systems. The application process is now closed.

Patient Safety Learning Laboratories: Advancing Patient Safety through Design, Systems Engineering, and Health Services Research (R18 Clinical Trial Optional).

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. PA-21-266.

This funding opportunity will support collaborative learning strategies that enable individuals and organizations to employ rapid prototyping to engineer new approaches focused on improving diagnosis and treatment. This learning laboratory funding builds on prior initiatives to further improvements in patient safety. The project submission process is now closed.

Diagnostic Safety Centers of Excellence.

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; October 2022.

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.

Medication Safety: Advancing the Development of Improvement Strategies and Tools (R18).

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 28, 2022. PA-20-028.

Medication errors are a consistent challenge in health care. This funding announcement seeks applications that focus on standardization and process enhancements to reduce care delivery factors that decrease the safety of medication use. This funding announcement expired January 27, 2022.

Request for proposals for clinical quality measures to improve diagnosis.

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Palo Alto CA; Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: February 22, 2022.

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.

Maternal Health Research Centers of Excellence (U54 Clinical Trial Optional).

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National Institutes of Health. August 11, 2022. RFA-HD-23-035.

Maternity care is increasingly being recognized as vulnerable to implicit biases and social inequities. This funding announcement aims to support initiatives that promote equity as a primary component of efforts to study preventable maternal harm in a variety of disadvantaged and ethnic populations. The application process is now closed.

Diagnostic Centers of Excellence: Partnerships to Improve Diagnostic Safety and Quality (R18).

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; April 7, 2022. RFA-HS-22-008.

Improving diagnosis and reducing diagnostic errors are patient safety priorities. This announcement supports the development of Diagnostic Centers of Excellence focused on improving frontline diagnostician support and improving diagnostic systems (i.e., improving diagnostic precision through consensus, improving “truth” or diagnostic reference standards). The application process is now closed.

Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine. DxQI Seed Grant Program.

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Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine.

The impact of diagnostic error is increasingly clarified as research defines primary areas of concern. This grant program will provide 20 seed grants to multidisciplinary teams that include patients. The work will devise and test interventions to improve the diagnostic process and includes areas of special interest exploring diagnosis in the older adult population and on cross-discipline teams. The 2022 application process closes March 25, 2022.

Zero Suicide Initiative.

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Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. Fed Register. November 3, 2021;(86):60883-60893.

Patient suicide attempts are considered never events. This funding announcement calls for program applications to motivate suicide prevention strategy implementation in the indigenous peoples’ community. The effort anchors on the Zero Suicide initiative to address unique challenges presented by the Indian health system. The application period closed in February 2022.

Making Health Care Safer in Ambulatory Care Settings and Long-term Care Facilities (R18).

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; September 9, 2021. PA-21-267.

This funding opportunity supports large research demonstration and implementation projects applying existing strategies to understand and reduce adverse events in ambulatory and long-term care settings. Projects focused on preventing harm in disadvantaged populations to improve equity are of particular interest. The funding cycle will be active through May 27, 2024.

Funding Announcement for Projects Targeting the Reduction of Healthcare-Associated Infections.

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 7 2021.

Health care–associated infections occur across various health care settings. AHRQ seeks to support large research (R01) and dissemination (R18) projects working to develop strategies and approaches for preventing and reducing health care–associated infections. Applications will be accepted on a standard submission schedule through May 27, 2025.

Using Innovative Digital Healthcare Solutions to Improve Quality at the Point of Care (R21/R33 - Clinical Trial Optional).

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. February 9, 2021. PA-21-164.

Digital strategies hold promise for improving point-of-care efficiency, communication, and safety. This funding opportunity will support research exploring how digital technology can be designed and implemented to improve the quality of healthcare services delivery at the point of care. Areas of interest include the use of patient-facing technologies, development of advanced analytics, and improvements in point-of-care clinical decision making.

Novel, High-Impact Studies Evaluating Health System and Healthcare Professional Responsiveness to COVID-19 (R01).

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; May 14, 2020.

The unprecedented nature of the COVID-19 pandemic requires unique evaluation strategies to examine system responses to the pandemic and its effects on quality and patient safety. AHRQ will award $5 million in fiscal year 2020 to support novel, high-impact studies that evaluate the responsiveness of health care delivery systems, health care professionals, and the overall U.S. health care system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. AHRQ expects to fund critical research focused on topics such as the effects on quality, safety, and value of the health system response to COVID-19; the role of primary care practices and professionals during the COVID-19 epidemic; understanding how the response to COVID-19 affected socially vulnerable populations and people with multiple chronic conditions; and the integration of digital health in the response to COVID-19, including innovations and challenges encountered in the expansion of telehealth. The process for submitting applications is now closed.

Improving Quality of Care and Patient Outcomes During Care Transitions (R01).

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Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; December 6, 2019. PA-20-068.

Communication during patient transitions carries the potential for mistakes that can result in patient harm. This program (funding) announcement will support the testing of interventions to improve communication and coordination during care transitions within and between a variety of care environments. Applicants are encouraged to incorporate a care transitions model such as Project RED into their research design. Applications are no longer being excepted.

FDA Funding Available for Research Aimed at Reducing Preventable Harm from Medication

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Silver Spring, MD; US Food and Drug Administration: October 4, 2019.

Medication error is a persistent challenge to safe care. This funding announcement seeks to stimulate research aligned with the FDA’s Safe Use Initiative.

AHRQ Health Services Research Project: Partners Enabling Diagnostic Excellence (R01).

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Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; AHRQ; US Department of Health and Human Services; HHS.

Diagnostic error research is emerging as an area of focus in health care. This funding opportunity will support large research projects that seek to examine diagnostic processes and diagnostic errors in a variety of settings and patient populations. The application process is now closed.

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