Project Grant R18HS019598

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...

The federal Project Grant award R01HS029664, funded 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 examining Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment patterns and the effects of MA versus traditional Medicare (TM) on healthcare utilization and outcomes for dual-eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The $398,587 award, effective from August 1, 2024 through May 31, 2029, will be...

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,...

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 $400,000 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 nationwide retrospective study on the impact of recent Medicare policy changes regarding hospice drug coverage. The study aims to: 1) examine changes in Medicare Part D expenditures and drug utilization pre- and post-policy change, 2) analyze patient-level changes in prescribing patterns and quality indicators,...

The University of California, Davis (UC Davis) received a $1,000,000 Cooperative Agreement award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance's Harold Rogers Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (CFDA 16.754) to strengthen the capacity of the California Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP) to generate and implement updated, evidence-based patient safety alerts. The project objectives are to: 1) analyze linked PDMP and mortality data to identify prescribing patterns associated with overdose risk,...

This $457,640 Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program aims to reduce diagnostic variance and improve patient safety in mental healthcare. The primary research goals are to: 1) Assess agreement across medical providers in their diagnostic processes and outputs for mental disorders, 2) Determine alignment between provider diagnoses and major diagnostic systems, and 3) Disseminate...

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 $398,972 in funding to the University of California, Davis to conduct a 5-year mixed-methods study (September 2024 - June 2029) on improving hospital care practices for newborns with prenatal substance exposure. The study aims to: 1) survey hospitals in the BORN nationwide research network to delineate current care...

This $145,139 Project Grant award from the U.S. 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 research conducted by the University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute, Inc. (KUMCRI) to develop community-informed, equity-focused quality improvement (QI) dashboards and strategies to address racial and ethnic health disparities in primary care. The...

This federal Project Grant award of $773,000.00, provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program, aims to disseminate and implement the MedSmart Families intervention in emergency department settings to reduce opioid misuse among adolescents. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Qualitative evaluation and iterative adaptation of the MedSmart Mobile digital health intervention...