New AHRQ Projects Will Use PCOR To Support Primary Care Practices

AHRQ has issued two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) aimed at increasing the use of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) in primary care practices. The grant described in the first FOAwill fund up to eight regional cooperatives to help primary care practices build capacity for the implementation of PCOR findings in clinical care. Initial efforts will support the use of PCOR findings to improve heart health. The companion FOA solicits a robust external evaluation of the same initiative designed to discover if and how practice support can best be used to disseminate and implement PCOR findings in primary care practice. AHRQ expects that funding will be available in early 2015. Applicants must specifically work with primary care practices using a comprehensive approach that uses evidence-based quality improvement strategies, such as practice facilitation, designed to improve the capacity of primary care practices to incorporate new PCOR evidence into care delivery. Grantees must also propose to rigorously evaluate their initiatives and agree to contribute to an overarching evaluation. AHRQ will invest up to $120 million over three years in supporting up to eight grantees, a landmark investment for the agency. A technical assistance and information conference call is scheduled for April 24. Letters of intent are due May 23, and applications are due July 3.This initiative was planned and developed in close coordination with agencies across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and is funded through the PCOR Trust Fund. AHRQ’s Prevention and Chronic Care Program provides additional information on how to improve primary care.

RFA-HS-14-009: Evaluation of AHRQ Initiative to Accelerate the Dissemination and Implementation of PCOR Findings into Primary Care (R01)

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