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 federal Project Grant award from 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 will support a $394,280 project titled "Reducing Necrotizing Enterocolitis Disparities with a Neonatal Project ECHO." The project aims to implement and evaluate a Neonatal Project ECHO (NEOECHO) tele-mentoring program to reduce disparities in the incidence of necrotizing...
This federal 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) will fund a $490,523 research project to adapt and implement a risk-stratified penicillin allergy evaluation process in outpatient settings. The key objectives are to: 1) measure the efficacy, barriers, and facilitators of outpatient antibiotic allergy assessment for surgical, transplant, and obstetric patients; 2) design...
This $100,000 Project Grant award, provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, will support research to predict and analyze primary care practice changes following updates to clinical treatment guidelines. The key objectives are to: 1) assess predictors of time to practice change towards more guideline-concordant care for four specific guideline updates, and 2) develop provider phenotypes...
The Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded Brown University $119,735.58 under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes federal grant program (CFDA 93.226) from April 1, 2021 to January 14, 2022. The Project Grant funding supports the development of statistical methods and application of machine learning techniques to reinterpret results from multisite clinical trials in the context of individual participating sites and new...
This federal Project Grant award for $399,999 from 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 will support a multidisciplinary research project at Northeastern University focused on understanding and addressing community health center burden, resiliency, and burnout. The research aims to: 1) Understand the nature, extent, and issues with system resiliency,...
This federal 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 $999,998 to Northwestern University to conduct a mixed-methods study evaluating the implementation of antibiotic stewardship (AS) strategies and their impact on equity in antibiotic prescribing. The study aims to examine disparities in antibiotic prescribing and identify drivers of inequity, particularly in...
This federal Project Grant award from 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 aims to implement and evaluate strategies to increase the use of oral antibiotics for children hospitalized with pneumonia. The total award amount is $148,882 and the performance period runs from September 30, 2024 to September 29, 2029. The principal investigator, Dr. Jillian Cotter,...
This federal Project Grant award of $400,000 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program will support research to assess the consistency of methods, results, and conclusions about patient safety in systematic reviews (SRs) of drugs. The project will leverage natural language processing (NLP) techniques to extract and synthesize evidence on harms from SRs, real-world evidence (RWE) studies, and...
This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the federal Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to improve long-term care (LTC) quality and safety for individuals living with dementia. With $449,999 in funding, the 3-year project starting September 2024 will implement and evaluate two decision support technology (DS tech) prototypes focused on fall prevention and staff burnout detection in LTC facilities. The...