RFA-HS-18-001: Patient Safety Learning Laboratories: Pursuing Safety in Diagnosis and Treatment at the Intersection of Design, Systems Engineering, and Health Services Research (R18)

RFA-HS-18-001: Patient Safety Learning Laboratories: Pursuing Safety in Diagnosis and Treatment at the Intersection of Design, Systems Engineering, and Health Services Research (R18)

AHRQ Announces Funding Opportunities for Patient Safety Learning Labs

An AHRQ funding opportunity announcement is available for creating and utilizing Patient Safety Learning Laboratories. Patient Safety Learning Laboratories comprise multidisciplinary teams such as doctors, engineers, designers, nurses, information technology experts and researchers, who investigate threats to safe patient care and proper diagnosis. The learning labs take a systems engineering approach to developing, testing and revising solutions to patient safety and diagnostic challenges that occur in a variety of health care settings. Such teams increase the likelihood of generating innovative designs that have the potential to alter the status quo and shape a safer future rather than simply adding a new safety practice on top of the existing system. AHRQ will fund up to eight awards. Letters of intent are due Feb. 26. Access the funding opportunity announcement.