AHRQ Announces New R18 Funding Opportunity: "Diagnostic Centers of Excellence: Partnerships to Improve Diagnostic Safety and Quality"
Posted May 04, 2022
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is pleased to announce the publication of a new R18 funding opportunity announcement (RFA-HS-22-008) entitled “Diagnostic Centers of Excellence: Partnerships to Improve Diagnostic Safety and Quality (R18).”
The purpose of this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) is to invite applications for the development of Diagnostic Centers of Excellence (DCE). In medicine, a diagnosis is a judgment identifying the cause of a disease or condition in a patient and has a critical role in treatment considerations and forecasting. Currently, high levels of variance in clinical diagnostic practice are associated with error, which may lead to patient harm. The role of a DCE is to perfect a component of diagnostic care in an integrated cross-disciplinary health system. Each DCE will develop expertise in one or two focus areas of diagnostic improvement. There are four areas of focus. Two of the areas of focus are aligned with frontline diagnostician support: 1) Safety-I error detection and prevention and 2) Safety-II resilience for safe practice. Two additional areas of focus are aligned with improving diagnostic systems: 3) improving diagnostic precision through consensus and 4) improving “truth” or diagnostic reference standards. It is anticipated that the synthesis of the collective findings and experience of the funded DCEs will cover all four of these focus areas, and ideally will result in fewer diagnostic errors and will improve safe diagnostic care.
All applications are due by 5:00 PM local time of applicant organization on June 9, 2022. Full information about this R18 grant opportunity may be viewed here:
https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HS-22-008.html