AHRQ Funding Opportunities on Diagnostic Errors

AHRQ Funding Opportunities on Diagnostic Errors

Two New AHRQ Funding Opportunities Despite the growing interest and rapid pace of recent achievements, not much is known about the strategies and interventions that might reduce diagnostic failures and patient harms. AHRQ is soliciting research applications to conduct: Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Projects (R18) to evaluate strategies and interventions for reducing diagnostic failures and patient harms, including approaches that enable organizations, providers and patients to better anticipate emerging diagnostic risk before failure and harm occurs. Health Services Research Projects (R01) to gain a better understanding of the complexity and incidence of diagnostic failure and its associated costs and harms. To access the funding opportunity announcements, select: Understanding and Improving Diagnostic Safety in Ambulatory Care: Strategies and Interventions (R18)(PA-15-179) Understanding and Improving Diagnostic Safety in Ambulatory Care: Incidence and Contributing Factors (R01) (PA-15-180)