Block Grant R13HS017520

The federal Project Grant award R03HS029977 for $300,000 was provided by the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program. This award will fund a pilot/feasibility study by Albert Einstein College of Medicine to test the implementation of a pharmacist-led Transition of Care (TOC) program targeting patients with high-risk diabetic kidney disease (DKD). The goal is to...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program supports a research project to assess the consistency of methods, results, and conclusions about patient safety in systematic reviews (SRs) of drugs. The project aims to leverage advanced natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract and synthesize evidence on harms from SRs, real-world evidence (RWE) studies,...

This federal Project Grant award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Projects of Regional and National Significance program (CFDA 93.243) provides $600,000 in funding to Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Alabama (UAB) to implement a comprehensive addiction medicine education curriculum for medical students. The overarching goal is to provide robust education on the clinical, social,...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program provides $400,000 to the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital (RINCH) to disseminate a facilitation strategy for eliminating unnecessary post-operative antibiotic use in children's hospitals. The key products and services to be delivered include: Adapting an existing evidence-based facilitation strategy to an online...

This $100,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program will fund a series of three annual health professions conferences hosted by the Auburn University Harrison College of Pharmacy (HCOP) Center for Opioid Research, Education, and Outreach (COACH). The conferences, scheduled for June 2025, June 2026, and June 2027, will focus on improving safe opioid prescribing and...

This $243,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (under CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) aims to develop an intervention for deprescribing potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) among older adults with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) receiving home health care services. The 5-year project has two key objectives: 1) to identify factors associated with and barriers/facilitators of routine PIM deprescribing for ADRD patients in home health care,...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) aims to examine the impact of medications on functional recovery and successful transition back to home following a hospitalization for heart failure in older adults. The $676,912 award to Brown University, with sub-awards to Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Ocean State Research Institute, will fund a series of rigorous observational studies over a 5-year period starting...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) supports the development of a novel mobile application, Pedia-Dose, to reduce health disparities by improving the accuracy of children's medication dosing. The $333,630 award will fund the implementation of evidence-based digital innovations targeting the root causes of medication errors, improve health literacy, and expand access to...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs (CFDA 93.279), aims to integrate and assess the practicality of a closed-loop medication management system dispensed through a hospital-based pharmacy to reduce opioid use by discharged emergency department patients. The $295,906 award to Addinex Technologies, Inc. will be used to adapt and enhance the company's ADDINEX system, which utilizes mechanical dispensers with...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) federal grant program will fund a randomized clinical trial to evaluate a "whole person" navigation intervention for adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC). The $400,000 award to Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will develop a predictive model to identify high-risk MCC patients and test a navigator role that integrates social...