Research on Child and Adolescent Health: New Starts |
Fiscal Year 2011This fact sheet summarizes new grants and contracts focused on child and adolescent health and health care—including research, conference, and training projects, as well as other initiatives—funded in FY 2011 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Select to download print version (PDF File, 2.6 MB). Plugin Software Help. ContentsIntroductionResearch Grants and Cooperative Agreements Dissertation Grants Conference Grants AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program Interagency Agreement For More Information IntroductionThe mission of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is to improve the safety, quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of health care for all Americans. Children are one of AHRQ's designated priority populations. To help achieve the Agency's mission for children, AHRQ supports extramural research grants and contracts, research training, conference grants, and intramural activities.This fact sheet provides information on extramural activities related to children's health that were initiated during fiscal year 2011. Each summary includes the title of the project, the name and, where applicable, the affiliation of the principal investigator, AHRQ project number, project dates, and a brief summary. Please select for more information about AHRQ's activities related to children's health and health care. Research Grants and Cooperative AgreementsResearch Grants
Cooperative AgreementsAHRQ-CMS Pediatric Quality Measures Program Centers of ExcellenceIn early 2009, Congress passed the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPRA, Public Law 111-3), which presents an unprecedented opportunity to measure and improve health care quality and outcomes for the Nation's children, including the almost 40 million children enrolled in Medicaid and/or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Since the law was passed, AHRQ and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have been working together to implement selected provisions of the legislation related to children's health care quality. The law called first for the identification of an initial set of core measures to be used to assess voluntarily the state of children's health care quality across and within State Medicaid and CHIP programs and then for establishment of the CHIPRA Pediatric Quality Measures Program (PQMP) to improve and strengthen the initial core set of measures and develop new measures as needed.In fiscal year 2011, with CHIPRA funds from CMS, AHRQ funded seven cooperative agreement grants to establish and support the CHIPRA PQMP Centers of Excellence (COEs). Each of these programs comprises multiple entities with diverse talents and expertise that can be applied to investigate and find solutions to some of the most pressing issues in child health quality measurement. In addition, AHRQ and CMS awarded a contract (290-2011-00004-C) to RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC, for the CHIPRA Coordinating and Technical Assistance Center to assist AHRQ, CMS, and the COEs in developing and improving measures of children's health care quality. For more information on the CHIPRA work underway, visit http://www.ahrq.gov/chipra/.
Dissertation Grants
Conference Grants
AHRQ's Effective Health Care ProgramThrough its Effective Health Care program, AHRQ funds researchers through research centers and academic organizations to work together with the Agency to produce effectiveness and comparative effectiveness research for clinicians, consumers, and policymakers.Comparative effectiveness research is designed to inform health care decisions by providing evidence on the effectiveness, benefits, and harms of different treatment options. The evidence is synthesized from research studies that compare drugs, medical devices, tests, surgeries, or ways to deliver health care. More information about AHRQ's Effective Health Care Program is available at http://www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov. The following initiatives related to child health were started by the Effective Health Care Program in FY 2011.
Interagency AgreementCenters for Disease Control and Prevention. Interagency Agreement between AHRQ and CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. Interagency Agreement 11-HS09-4006-CPCB. This IAA provides funds to support the work of the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. The purpose of the Forum is to foster collaboration among Federal agencies that produce or use statistical data on children and families. The Forum produces the annual report America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, available at http://www.childstats.gov. AHRQ is represented on the Forum's Executive Committee.Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. AHRQ helps to support this Forum which produces annual reports on the well-being of children. The Web site for this activity is http://www.childstats.gov. For More InformationAHRQ's World Wide Web site (http://www.ahrq.gov) provides information on the Agency's children's health services research agenda and funding opportunities. In addition, AHRQ also offers a child and adolescent health email update service to which users may subscribe (go to https://subscriptions.ahrq.gov/accounts/USAHRQ/subscriber/new? and follow the prompts).Further details on AHRQ's programs and priorities in child health services research are available from: Denise M. Dougherty, Ph.D. Senior Advisor, Child Health and Quality Improvement Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850 Denise.Dougherty@ahrq.hhs.gov AHRQ Publication No. 12-P007-EF Current as of May 2012 Internet Citation: Research on Child and Adolescent Health: New Starts, Fiscal Year 2011. Fact Sheet. AHRQ Publication 12-P007-EF, May 2012. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/childr11.htm |
lunes, 4 de junio de 2012
Research on Child and Adolescent Health: New Starts, Fiscal Year 2011
Research on Child and Adolescent Health: New Starts, Fiscal Year 2011
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