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 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 federal Project Grant award of $500,000.00 was made on September 30, 2024 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program. The grant was awarded to Brigham & Women's Hospital Inc., a subsidiary of the larger Partners Healthcare System Incorporated, to conduct research on the relationships between diagnosis quality, clinician time and stress. The key objectives of the 4-year project are to: 1)...
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...
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 $199,375 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research Program (CFDA 93.866) supports a research study at Brown University examining the quality of hospice care provided to Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's and related dementias (ADRD) in long-term care (LTC) settings. The study has two key aims: 1) Describe the individual, facility, and community-level characteristics associated with ADRD beneficiaries receiving care from LTC-focused hospices,...
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 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) under the Medical Library Assistance (CFDA 93.879) program provides $387,426 to support research to improve the methodology and application of geographic variation analyses in healthcare. The key objectives are: Revisiting the definitions and practical applications of regional and network measures of healthcare use and outcomes to avoid biases and increase generalizability, especially for...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) provides $382,852 to Brown University to develop methodological innovations for improving the use of observational causal inference models to estimate the population-level impact of interventions on infectious disease outcomes. The key products and services to be delivered include: Proposing robust specifications for observational...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $676,912 to Brown University to conduct research on the impact of medications on functional recovery and successful transition back to home for older adults discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) after a heart failure hospitalization. The research will focus on three specific aims: 1) estimating the effects of heart failure-specific and other medications administered in SNFs on...
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 target populations. Specifically, the awardee aims to 1) develop robust, efficient statistical approaches to transport inferences from multisite trials to sites and new populations, 2) evaluate method performance through simulation reflecting real-world data, and 3) apply the methods to reinterpret the National Lung Screening Trial results for a site and new population using a nationally representative health survey. Insights from this work seek to improve the applicability and value of multisite trial evidence for decision-making regarding treatment effects in diverse populations.