Project Grant 2013PMBX0008

This Project Grant award, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, supports a comprehensive $398,972 study on improving healthcare quality and equity for newborns with prenatal substance exposure. The study, conducted by the University of California, Davis in collaboration with the Better Outcomes through Research for Newborns (BORN) network and the EMPOWER stakeholder group, aims to:...

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) supports a $400,000 randomized trial to evaluate the impact of a "whole person navigation" intervention for adults with multiple chronic conditions. The intervention combines predictive modeling to identify high-risk patients with a navigation strategy to help guide them in accessing social services and overcoming...

The Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded Oregon State University a $740,620 Project Grant under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) to evaluate the integration of state prescription drug monitoring programs into electronic health records. Oregon Health & Science University and Comagine Health were named as sub-awardees to provide integration services for OHSU's Epic EHR system and support...

This $500,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program supports research to improve understanding of delayed diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in ambulatory care settings. The project aims to leverage electronic health record (EHR) data and stakeholder expertise to identify risk factors, disparities, and outcomes associated with delayed and missed VTE diagnosis in...

The University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) was awarded a $145,139 Project Grant under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The award, with a project period from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2029, aims to develop community-informed quality indicators and implementation strategies to improve health equity in primary care settings. Key activities include: 1) identifying...

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 will support a $100,000 research project by the American Board of Family Medicine Inc. (ABFM) to analyze the response of primary care providers to updates of four different clinical treatment guidelines. The project aims to assess the predictors of time to practice change towards more guideline-concordant care for updates related...

This federal Project Grant award under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), will support a $142,864 project to use natural language processing and generative AI models to capture social determinants of health (SDH) information from patients. The goal is to process this SDH data into discrete elements that can be integrated into the electronic health record and used by clinical decision...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the CFDA 93.226 Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program is funding the development and testing of a clinical decision support (CDS) tool to improve iron deficiency screening and management for pregnant individuals at high risk of postpartum hemorrhage (PPH). Specifically, the $118,089 award will support a two-phase project at Massachusetts...

This Project Grant from the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health, provides $769,755 to develop an unbiased machine learning tool for the prediction of acute coronary syndrome. The tool aims to minimize bias in predictions between patient demographic groups, as measured by equal opportunity difference and the Zemel statistic, to ensure machine learning algorithms do not exacerbate...

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 will provide $275,000 in funding to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston from August 1, 2024 to July 31, 2026. The project aims to develop and test strategies to increase implementation of evidence-based interventions through collaboration with patient advocacy groups in the areas of juvenile idiopathic...