AHRQ Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grants (R18)

Additional Information:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-290.html

Description:

This FOA invites Large Research Demonstration and Dissemination (R18) Project applications. The Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grant (R18) is an award made by AHRQ to an institution/organization to support a discrete, specified health services research project. The R18 research plan proposed by the applicant institution/organization must be related to the mission and portfolio priority research interests of AHRQ. Although the PD/PI writes the grant application and is responsible for conducting and supervising the research, the actual applicant is the research institution/organization.

The AHRQ mission is to produce evidence to make health care safer, higher quality, more ac­cessible, equitable and affordable, and to work with HHS and other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used. Within the mission, AHRQ’s specific priority areas of focus are:

• Improve health care quality by accelerating implementation of Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)
• Make health care safer
• Increase accessibility by evaluating expansions of insurance coverage
• Improve health care affordability, efficiency and cost transparency

These areas, relevant to Research Demonstration and Dissemination Grant (R18) applications submitted to AHRQ, are articulated at (http://www.ahrq.gov/funding/policies/foaguidance/index.html). Contacting an AHRQ staff member may help focus the research plan based on an understanding of the AHRQ mission and research priorities. AHRQ staff contacts can be found at http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/staffcon.htm.

As AHRQ is interested in funding research that will have an important impact on health care practice and policy, applicants to this FOA are encouraged to submit a structured abstract of the potential findings that might arise from the planned research proposed. If a structured abstract is included as part of the grant application, it should be submitted as an appendix.