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 $457,640 to assess the level of diagnostic agreement across medical providers for mental disorders. The project aims to: 1) evaluate diagnostic consistency among providers, 2) determine agreement between provider diagnoses and published diagnostic systems, 3) provide feedback to providers on cases where they...
This is a 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. The $603,582 award, effective May 1, 2024 through April 30, 2029, will fund research by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to: (1) detect and characterize diagnostic errors among high-risk patients discharged from emergency departments (EDs); (2) detect and characterize outcomes resulting from diagnostic errors, including...
The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded a $500,000 Project Grant under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc. The grant aims to leverage electronic health record (EHR) data and stakeholder expertise to gain an understanding of risk factors, disparities, and outcomes related to delayed diagnosis of venous thromboembolism (VTE) in ambulatory and urgent care settings.
The project will develop...
This $800,000 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 will evaluate the impact of three EHR-optimization interventions (scribes, advanced team-based inbox messaging support, and AI-assisted inbox messaging support) on primary care physician (PCP) EHR time, well-being, and quality of care. The study will leverage data and insights from six primary care practice networks...
This federal Project Grant award for $498,042 was provided by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program. The award aims to develop and evaluate multimodal clinical diagnostic reasoning models for automated diagnosis generation to help reduce diagnostic errors that affect 12 million patients and contribute to 80,000 deaths annually in the U.S.
The project will involve three key efforts: 1) developing a multimodal...
This federal Project Grant award for $795,826 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to reduce variation and sociodemographic disparities in radiologist recommendations for additional imaging (RAI) in head and neck radiology.
The key products and services to be delivered include:
Identifying sociodemographic disparities in RAI rates, referring provider agreement, and patient...
This $308,016 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 multi-faceted research project led by The Johns Hopkins University to characterize the lung cancer diagnostic journey and identify strategies to prevent delays and associated harms.
The proposed research will: (1) measure delays in patient, provider, and system time intervals for the lung cancer diagnostic...
This $399,999 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 supports a multidisciplinary research effort to understand and address the complex issues of work burden, system resiliency, and burnout among community health center staff. The project, led by Northeastern University, aims to: (1) characterize the nature and extent of system inefficiencies and lack of...
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 fund a project to use natural language processing and generative AI models to capture social determinants of health (SDH) information from patients. The $142,864 award will be used to process this SDH data into discrete elements that can be integrated into the electronic health record and leveraged by clinical decision...
This $449,999 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) aims to improve long-term care (LTC) quality and safety for people living with dementia. The University of Colorado-Denver, the prime grantee, will implement and evaluate two decision support technology (DS Tech) prototypes focused on fall prevention and staff burden detection in LTC settings. The research will...
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 $500,000.00 in funding to Brigham & Women's Hospital to conduct research on measuring diagnostic outcomes, clinician stress, and time needed for accurate and timely diagnoses.
The key products and services to be delivered through this award include: 1) Identifying 400 patients with diagnostic visits and soliciting their feedback on diagnostic processes and outcomes; 2) Collecting and analyzing data on the relationships between electronic health record-measured time, clinician stress, and diagnostic outcomes using data from 40,000 visits; and 3) Collecting transcripts of 100 AI-documented diagnostic encounters and conducting qualitative analysis of the diagnostic communication and the quality of the AI-generated clinical notes. This research aims to advance the understanding of time requirements for common diagnostic assessments and the quality of diagnostic processes, as well as the potential role of AI systems in clinical documentation.