Listing all stimulus spending by amount, in descending order. Return to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality page
Amount refers to both the amount of stimulus funding going toward the project and the face value of the loan.
| Recipient | Amount | Type | Description | Federal Dept./Agency | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $99,292 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This R13 Large Conference Grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports the United States Cochrane Center (USCC) in collaboration with the consumer advocacy coalition, Consumers United for Evidence-based Healthcare (C(CUE), to co... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/24/2009 |
| RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE | $998,978 | Contract | : This project, funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), will improve methods for assessing and synthesizing evidence about the quality and efficacy of health care services. It will also promote use of these methods by AHRQ Evi | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/25/2009 |
| TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER, INC. | $1,000,000 | Contract | : The work under this Task Order will support the work of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Effective Health Care program established under Section 1013 of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) and augmented by the American Recovery and R | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/25/2009 |
| FISHER SCIENTIFIC COMPANY L.L.C. | $16 | Contract | : Syringe/Needle TB 1CC 25Gauge x 5/8 inch 100/pk | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/17/2009 |
| FISHER SCIENTIFIC COMPANY L.L.C. | $120 | Contract | : Hemacytometer Counting Chamber | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 6/17/2009 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $5,000,000 | Contract | : Purpose: Translating scientific evidence into products for patients, clinicians and policymakers. Abstract: The gap between research findings and actual medical practice remains a concern for all citizens: -Patients, searching for information on safe | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/24/2009 |
| FISHER SCIENTIFIC COMPANY L.L.C. | $3 | Contract | : Kimwipes small 4.5 x 8.5 inch 280/pk | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/20/2009 |
| B.L. SEAMON CORPORATION | $307,420 | Contract | : The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) contracted with B L Seamon to provide logistical support for the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness and Research (FCC). The FCC was created as a result of the American Recovery | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 5/08/2009 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $5,280,448 | Contract | : The goal of this funding initiative on ?Comprehensive Comparative Effectiveness Reviews for Effective Health Care? is to improve understanding of the comparative effectiveness and safety of medications, procedures, tests, and management strategies for pat | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 10/27/2009 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $6,000,000 | Contract | : The MN EPC is one of a core group of EPCs to focus on a comprehensive approach to comparative effectiveness review (CERs) and evidence syntheses including defining the topic, conducting the systematic review and identifying and characterizing limitations | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 10/24/2009 |
| THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $5,970,037 | Contract | : The purpose of this Task Order is to create a core group of Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPCs) to focus on a comprehensive approach to comparative effectiveness review (CER) and evidence synthesis. The CER process can be outlined as having three step | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 10/26/2009 |
| TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER, INC. | $6,000,000 | Contract | : The work under this Task Order augmented by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will support the work of the Effective Health Care (EHC) Program which began in 2005 in conjunction with Section 1013 of the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), in | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 10/26/2009 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $6,000,000 | Contract | : This proposal to AHRQ from the Duke Evidence-Based Practice Center (EPC) is in response to the ''ARRA 2009 - Comprehensive EPC Comparative Effectiveness Reviews for Effective Health Care' request for task order. Awarding of this Task Order would allow the | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 10/26/2009 |
| RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE | $998,978 | Contract | : This project, funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), will improve methods for assessing and synthesizing evidence about the quality and efficacy of health care services. It will also promote use of these methods by AHRQ Evi | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/25/2009 |
| RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE | $6,000,000 | Contract | : The RTI International-University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Evidence-based Practice Center (RTI-UNC EPC) conducts four major types of comparative effectiveness activities for AHRQ, with a special focus on mental health. Area 1 includes the developme | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 10/23/2009 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $5,998,777 | Contract | : The purpose of this contract is to create a core group of Evidence-based Practice Centers (EPC) to focus on a comprehensive approach to comparative effectiveness review (CER) and evidence synthesis. The three main work areas are: develop and refine of to | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 10/26/2009 |
| BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD ASSOCIATION | $5,996,188 | Contract | : This Task Order formalizes a commitment to an expanded scope of work with three major work components: 1. Develop and refine topics for CERs that are informative to stakeholder decisional needs. 2. Conduct CERs with systematic and transparent methods. | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 10/24/2009 |
| BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC. | $9,198,119 | Contract | : Booz Allen will support the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and it Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC) to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the training of staff in Regional Exchange Centers (REC | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC. | $3,124,166 | Contract | : The purpose of this Domain 4 task order is to provide for a public website and private collaborative web portal to support the Extension Program National Learning Consortium (NLC). Sucontractor, Intergryst, provides portal and troubleshooting support. | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| BOOZ ALLEN HAMILTON INC. | $567,455 | Contract | : Booz Allen will assist AHRQ to develop an operations plan for program management of the HITRC. Preliminary steps in developing the Operations Plan include development of a Strategic Plan and documenting data, reporting, and system (functional) requirement | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 1/04/2010 |
| RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE | $998,978 | Contract | : This project, funded by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), will improve methods for assessing and synthesizing evidence about the quality and efficacy of health care services. It will also promote use of these methods by AHRQ Evi | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/25/2009 |
| ABT ASSOCIATES INC. | $1,155,895 | Contract | : The U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded a number of contracts, through the Agency for Health Research and Quality, together comprising the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC). HITRC devel | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE | $5,984,293 | Contract | : RTI will provide support to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to plan, coordinate, and facilitate meetings at the national and regional levels for the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC) in it | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| WESTAT, INC. | $858,099 | Contract | : The purpose of this task order is to develop and evaluate a series of tools and resources that support the meaningful use of Electronic Health Records in the area of care coordination. | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE | $2,180,731 | Contract | : As part of the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC), RTI International will identify, develop, and disseminate educational tools and resources to assist 60 to 70 regional extension centers (RECs) nationwide work with providers in their co | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| WESTAT, INC. | $10,682,420 | Contract | : The purpose of the award is to support the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to plan, implement, maintain and evaluate performance of a collaborative Knowledge Sharing Network (KSN) for the Health information Techn | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER | $915,639 | Contract | : This project will develop tools and resources for Regional Extension centers (RECs) to assist eligible health care providers meet meaningful use criteria for public and population health. This project will include an annual environmental scan and gap ana | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE | $3,606,822 | Contract | : The purpose of this project is to assist the Office of the National Coordinatorfor Health IT (ONC), the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC), and the current 60 Regional Exchange Centers (RECs) with identifying and developing 'best practi | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, INC., THE | $994,111 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Purpose: This is a Data Capacity-Building Project, to build a robust comparative effectiveness research infrastructure, agenda, and collaborative partnerships focused on eliminating health disparities. Specifically we will build a database comomprised of ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| LEWIN GROUP, INC., THE | $3,288,743 | Contract | : In collaboration with other contractors and staff in HITRC, Lewin will support the RECs in their outreach and marketing of the adoption of EHRs by PHCPs. Lewin has responsibility for identifying the most recent information on marketing HIT adoption in pub | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $296,669 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This R13 Large Conference Grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) supports the United States Cochrane Center (USCC) in collaboration with the US-based consumer advocacy coalition, Consumers United for Evidence-based Healalthcare (CU... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/24/2009 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., THE | $971,610 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Despite the availability of a growing body of CER reviews, non-evidence-based prescribing is common. 'Academic detailing' was pioneered by our team 30 years ago as a method of educational outreach that provides prescribers with accurate, non-comommercial, a... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| WESTAT, INC. | $858,099 | Contract | : As part of the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC), Westat will identify, develop, and disseminate educational tools and resources to assist 60 to 70 regional extension centers (RECs) nationwide work with providers in their communities t | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,859,005 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Over $1 billion is spent annually for contracted companies to deliver disease management programs to adults with chronic conditions, yet evidence of the effectiveness and cost savings of these programs is lacking. Published research suggests thahat disease ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS | $8,920,115 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: A network of 32 health services and intervention scientists affiliated with the HMO Research Network propose to build a national database for conducting comparative effectiveness research on treatment and on approaches to preventing diabetes melellitus. Th... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $2,111,642 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: We propose a UAB K12 program in Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to support 4 CER Scholars. This K12 training will be facilitated by the UAB AHRQ-funded Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs), AHRQ-funded T32 in Healthth Services ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,496,528 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: At any one time, there are approximately 16 million Americans with depression, a condition associated with decreased quality and diminished duration of life, and with very large costs for society and for the families affected. Lifestyle changes s and self-c... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/30/2010 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,480,432 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Pharmacological therapy is a critical component of diabetes treatment. Successful medications management requires a partnership between providers who initiate and titrate medications and patients who adhere to the regimen. Yet, there are high rarates both o... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $987,675 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adolescence is a time when mental health issues are common. Half of all lifetime mental health disorders emerge by age 14. Despite the majority of adolescents being seen every year in primary care, onlyly a third o... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| OGILVY PUBLIC RELATIONS WORLDWIDE INC. | $8,613,876 | Contract | : The purpose of this contract is to designate an organization responsible to establish five (5)dissemination and partnership regional offices to be located in some of the same Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas as the HHS regional offices around th | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION, THE | $824,671 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Harvard Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship Program will create a novel training program dedicated to developing capacity in comparative effectiveness research (CER) to improve health care for children. These trainees will comprisese the futur... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $644,952 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The University of Pittsburgh Postdoctoral Program in Comparative Effectiveness Research provides a 2-year training experience in comparative effectiveness research for motivated, creative individuals with prior health professional or research d doctorates.... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| IMPAQ INTERNATIONAL LLC | $2,371,179 | Contract | : The purpose of this Task Order is to conduct an evaluation of the effectiveness of the various dissemination and implementation approaches undertaken by the Office of Communications and Knowledge Transfer (OCKT) related to AHRQG??s comparative effectivene | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/15/2010 |
| KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS | $8,453,702 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) develops in 50% of women with gestational diabetes (GDM) within 5 years after delivery. So far, no lifestyle interventions have been translated for women with GDM in the postpartum period. The main goal of this study is toto examine t... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/30/2010 |
| EMERGENCY CARE RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $9,499,986 | Contract | : ARRA - HORIZON SCANNING SYSTEM - The purpose of this contract is to establish a system to conduct horizon scanning of healthcare technology in order to better inform comparative effectiveness research investments at the AHRQ through the Effective Healthca | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/01/2010 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $2,061,276 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Tens of billions of dollars invested in research are spent ineffectively each year because of correctable research flaws. Comparative effectiveness reviews consistently note problems in the representativeness and quality of many studies. This prproposal lev... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | $9,999,742 | Contract | : The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a contract to American Institutes for Research. The contract is entitled Community Forum. The contract was awarded in the amount of $9,999,742. The purpose of this contract is to establish | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/11/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $1,487,080 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: 'This project proposes the following three aims: (Aim 1) To conduct a needs assessment for the nursing home setting relevant to the AHRQ CERSG entitled ''Off-Label Use of Atypical Antopsychotic Drugs.'' The assessment will identify: (a) intererest in and... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (INC) | $9,645,674 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: 'In response to RFA-10-003: AHRQ Clinical and Health Outcomes Initiative in Comparative Effectiveness: the goal of this project is to conduct a randomized controlled multi-center clinical trial to determine whether using the Online Wound Electroronic Medica... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO | $9,154,210 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The STONE study, a multi-center randomized controlled trial (RCT), is a comparative effectiveness trial of three different imaging strategies in patients with suspected urolithiasis (kidney stones), seen in the Emergency Department. The study f focuses on ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| NORTHWEST PORTLAND AREA INDIAN HEALTH BOARD | $1,183,186 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Improving Data & Enhancing Access - Northwest (IDEA-NW). Using the most complete roster of Northwest American Indians/Alaska Natives (AI/AN) available, the IDEA-NW Project will conduct record linkages with an array of health-related data systemsms in a thre... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $1,373,914 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The project team will adapt the AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Research Summary Guide, 'Comparative Effectiveness and Safety of Oral Diabetes Medications for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes' to be literacy level appropriate, concise, targeted, and d actionable... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/26/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M D ANDERSON | $1,497,995 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ), through its Effective Health Care Program (http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq. gov), supports the development of comparative effectiveness reviews (CERs), many of which have associated productcts designed... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/01/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $2,073,860 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Comparing the Effectiveness of Diabetes Care Interventions in Safety Net Clinics Despite the large disease burden of diabetes, there is incomplete knowledge about the comparative effectiveness of quality improvement strategies for diabetes care e that are f... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA | $1,251,489 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Millions of Americans are treated in hospitals and managed care organizations that have created pharmacy and therapeutic (P& T) committees to ensure that medications are safely and effectively prescribed and administered. These committees and ththeir suppor... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| RAND CORPORATION, THE | $1,487,121 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Significant disparities exist between the prevention and treatment of breast cancer among Latinas and nonLatina white women. An important factor appears to be the difference in access to evidence-based health information between these groups of f women. Dis... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY, THE | $8,309,936 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: For Stage I Part 1, we extracted limited access data sets from APPLES including 106 data terms for which a data dictionary could be provided. These data were then used to enable, evaluate, and refine tools previously developed during the NCRR-susupported Ph... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE ASSOCIATION | $2,932,135 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Title: Bundled Episode Payment and Gainsharing Demonstration Project. The demonstration project will evaluate the comparative clinical and economic effectiveness of a new bundled episode payment method for physicians and hospitals relative to o current pa... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, INC., THE | $1,493,090 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The proposed adaptation and dissemination project builds on previous research aimed at improving diabetes care quality at a local federally-quality community health center, providing care to this predominately low income, urban African American n population... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/31/2010 |
| OUTCOME SCIENCES, INC. | $4,997,998 | Contract | : The 'Registry of Patient Registries' task order includes five tasks: 1) Develop the registry of patient registries (RoPR) system, 2) Develop an outcome measures framework, 3) Research and write a white paper on creating an archive of expired patient regis | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $935,189 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: As public and private payors, policymakers and practices seek to determine whether investment in the medical home model can improve the quality and efficiency of health care in the United States, the identification of a valid means for measurining whether ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., THE | $3,934,148 | Contract | : The proposed BWH DEciDE Methods Center & Network will complement and support new research and evidence development activities that will be conducted under DEciDE and other funding mechanisms involving ARRA funds. In collaboration with AHRQ we will propose | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/13/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $2,836,647 | Contract | : MASTER AGREEMENT--Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness: The DEcIDE Network Anemia is a highly prevalent condition among the over 500,000 people in the US with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and is associated with increased morbidity | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/13/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $1,649,285 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Overall AimsThe issues facing healthcare systems in the United States today are complex and raise questions as to whether we are generating and utilizing evidence of the relative benefits and harms of medical interventions wisely to improve healalth across ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $999,852 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The goal of this project is to develop a unique database linking clinical data from an electronic medical record (EMR) of a large academic healthcare system to multi-payer claims data. The population of patients will be all patients attributed t to a large ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/12/2010 |
| AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY, THE | $9,666,726 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) represents a potentially disruptive technology in terms of its impact on the clinical evaluation and management of coronary artery disease (CAD). This was highlighted by its inclusion in the Consensus Report on Ininitial Natio... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $7,572,695 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Prostate cancer is the most common solid tumor and the second leading cause of cancer death among American men. While surgery, radiation and observation have all been deemed appropriate for newly diagnosed men, tremendous uncertainty remains regegarding the... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/12/2010 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $11,743,165 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: EHRs have the potential to anchor a learning healthcare system where each clinical encounter is an opportunity to learn and to improve clinical outcomes. We propose to link EHRs to disease-specific registries in a distributed network of pediatriric healthca... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $500,000 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This application addresses broad needs for comparative effectiveness research and proposes to conduct and analytic epidemiologic studies of retrospective cohort design, to assess the benefits and harms of preventive or therapeutic interventions s in G?real ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $1,386,779 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: In this project we seek to utilize our successful experience in computer-assisted patient education in order to develop a comprehensive informatics framework for rapid adaptation and dissemination of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) prododucts tailo... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/31/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $1,416,381 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The risk-benefit balance of antipsychotic use in dementia is precarious. While evidence supports the efficacy of certain atypical antipsychotics in treating behavioral disturbances, these drugs have been found to increase the risk of death and c cerebrovasc... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| SOCIAL & SCIENTIFIC SYSTEMS, INC. | $999,963 | Contract | : Technical Assistance to Enhance State Data. Technical assistance related to the improvement of statewide inpatient and hospital outpatient administrative databases that are the basis for CDOM's Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Develop content for | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/03/2010 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., THE | $3,040,076 | Contract | : Although the incidence of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) has risen dramatically within the last 20 years, the long term consequences of different DCIS treatment strategies are not well understood. Treatment options for DCIS include type of surgery (lumpe | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/13/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $377,655 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This proposed work is responsive to the RFP HS-10-009: Comparative Effectiveness Research to Optimize Prevention and Healthcare Management for the Complex Patient. The proposed work addresses several of the Institute of MedicineG??s (IOMG??s) nanational pri... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, MAINE DEPARTMENT OF | $481,381 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Impact of Mental Illness and/or Substance Abuse on Diabetes Intervention and Outcomes. This analytical epidemiologic study aims to further scientific knowledge about the effectiveness and outcomes of treatments for both diabetes and behavioral h health diso... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $563,672 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: We propose a UAB T32 program in Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to support 4 CER Trainees (2 cohorts of 2 trainees each). This T32 training will be an extension of our very successful T32 in Health Services & Outcomes Research and will l be facilit... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $1,545,460 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Colorado Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) and Safety K12 Scholars Program will be a national and regional resource for research and training in health care and CER, and the hub for CER in the Rocky Mountain Region. We will develop a a new K12 pr... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| FUNCTION1 | $899,999 | Contract | : To determine infrastructure requirements and specifications and provide dedicated support to configure, upgrade, improve, and maintain the NRC portal infrastructure and web environment capabilities and components (including hardware, network, underlying p | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $2,073,232 | Contract | : Poor outcomes are common for heart failure (HF) patients with 1-year readmission rates over 50% and 1-year mortality greater than 30% among Medicare Beneficiaries hospitalized with heart failure.} Heart failure is also the top diagnosis for hospitalizatio | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/13/2010 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $1,950,066 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) proposes a Mentored Comparative Effectiveness Research Scholar Program (MCERSP) in response to the AHRQ ARRA Recovery Act 2009 Limited Competition RFA-HS-10-007. For over 30 years, Duke has been a world leadader in trai... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/15/2010 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $455,422 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Better continuity of care has been associated with improved quality of care, and reduced emergency room visits and hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions. With better continuity, interactions between patients and providers arere productiv... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| HEKTOEN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, THE | $998,589 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: we will focus delivery of A-CASI to our most complex patient population, General Medicine Clinic (GMC) patients. During 2009, the GMC saw 18,000 unique patients who accounted for over 51,000 visits. Many of these patients enter the clinic after r being hosp... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT CORPORATION | $1,499,024 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Adapting hypertension and diabetes guides for hard-to-reach African American men | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| HEALTH, NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF | $1,182,648 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The New Mexico Department of Health and the Health Policy Commission will improve the quality of race and ethnicity data in hospital discharge and emergency department databases in New Mexico. In addition, the project will collect tribal identififier data a... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| PRIME EDUCATION INC. | $3,981,168 | Contract | : Creation of accredited medical education online courses. | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $8,309,906 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: We will develop a distributed network infrastructure for comparative effectiveness research that provides flexibility to participant sites in the means for data sharing. This flexibility will be implemented by allowing codification of data shaharing polic... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| BELL, JAMES ASSOCIATES (INC) | $2,209,935 | Contract | : RECOVERY OS CER: Evaluation of ARRA Supported Grantee Efforts to Implement and Spread CER Finding | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., THE | $943,928 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Medications treating cardiovascular conditions offer important benefits for patients and, when prescribed ideally, can save both lives and money. However, the high cost of many cardiovascular medications concerns insurers, especially in public p programs su... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $865,647 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The program will prepare doctorally-trained individuals, including physicians, for academic careers of scholarship in CER targeted for quality improvement, patient/family-centered care, and health/health care disparities, focusing on the needs o of individu... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/01/2010 |
| CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HOSPITAL AUTHORITY, THE | $2,937,087 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The overall goal is to identify best practices for improving health outcomes for patients with asthma using comparative effectiveness research within an AHRQ PBRN. This goal will be achieved by completing the following aims: (1) Create a centralalized datab... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| ECONOMETRICA, INC | $1,060,353 | Contract | : Econometrica, Inc., in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH), will manage the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Comparative Effectiveness Research Technical Assistance Center (CERTAC) to support the AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Rese | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/19/2010 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $4,927,837 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: State Medicaid programs play a central role in the provision of mental health services in the U.S., particularly for lower-income youth and adults with severe mental illness, whose mental health treatment is often without apparent clinical ratioionale. Bui... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $980,462 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Improving Reporting of Race, Ethnicity, and Language in California. In order to identify, understand, and eliminate healthcare disparities, it is critically important to make headway in the way that hospitals and other providers and payers succccessfully c... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/20/2011 |
| OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $498,740 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Addictive conditions (often compounded by major depressive disorder) are major problems for many pregnant women. But there is little or no information about comparative effectiveness of outpatient versus residential substance abuse treatment fofor these co... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| ACADEMYHEALTH | $3,856,340 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The EDM Forum is a 3-year award designed to advance Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR), also referred to as Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER), by developing the infrastructure and methods for collecting and analyzing prospective dadata from el... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/31/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $9,887,064 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Low back pain is one of the most important causes of functional limitation and disability, an Institute of Medicine priority condition, and it remains a particularly important problem for the elderly, an AHRQ priority population. While there arere numerous ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $499,209 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Optimizing Chronic Disease Prevention and Management in Advanced Dementia: We propose to study the effectiveness of medication prophylaxis for chronic illness in the medically complex population of nursing home (NH) residents with advanced demementia. Over... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $814,817 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: UNC post-doctoral training program in comparative effectiveness research The Cecil G Sheps Center at UNC Chapel Hill is pleased to be awarded for a T-32 post-doctoral training program in comparative effectiveness research (CER). This additiononal program... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, THE | $968,866 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS ADMINISTRATIVE DATA REPOSITORY The PI wishes to use the existing abstract as reported in the NIH reporter as her Award Description for ARRA reporting purposes. | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/01/2010 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (INC) | $2,108,636 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The New York University (NYU) School of Medicine proposes a post-doctoral, interdisciplinary, Mentored Career Development Program in Comparative Effectiveness Research focused on improving health decisions afaffecting th... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $1,487,683 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: StoryGuides: Making Comparative Effectiveness Useful for Vulnerable Patients will culturally adapt the AHRQ Comparative Effectiveness Patient Guides (the Guides) through storytelling (narrative communication), test their use in a randomized trtrial, and a... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY | $8,422,410 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Indiana PROSPECT builds on the nation?s largest, most sophisticated health information exchange that already contains over 2.5 billion structured observations and 38 million text documents for over 10 million patients. This resource is alreaeady used fo... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE | $2,984,096 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The purpose of this project is to demonstrate major improvements in care quality through redesign of care delivery in the University of Utah Community Clinics. The Community Clinics (CC) are a fee-for-service 10-site primary- and secondary-care e system wit... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| MINNESOTA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION | $1,475,971 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The long term objective of this research is to develop a clinically-enhanced administrative database that builds upon the foundation that has already been established in Minnesota by the Minnesota Hospital Association and to demonstrate its use e in studyin... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $10,832,974 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Surgical Care and Outcomes Assessment Program (SCOAP) is a voluntary, clinical data-based surveillance, sharing and feedback platform aimed at improving quality and performing 'real world' studies of comparative effectiveness. Over the inititial three ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/16/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $3,117,856 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Evidence-based guidelines for management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) have been available to practicing physicians since 2002. There is strong evidence that implementation of these guidelines by primary care physicians can delay CKD progressision and red... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| TOTAL THERAPEUTIC MANAGEMENT INC | $11,680,060 | Contract | : ACADEMIC DETAILING SERVICES | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| SPHERE INSTITUTE | $986,728 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The SPHERE Institute, in partnership with the Acumen LLC DEclDE Center, proposes to build data capacity that will support comparative effectiveness research (CER) on complex patients in Medicare and Medicaid-funded post-acute care. The project w will create... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $9,898,332 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The G?Variations in Care: Comparing Heart Failure Care Transition Intervention EffectsG? is a comparative effectiveness project that examines approaches to improve variation in resource use and mortality among the five University of California M Medical Cen... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $983,802 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This project will establish a statewide data infrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) on healthcare delivery innovations for complex patients in low-income communities. It addresses two CER priorities established by the Instititute of Med... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/26/2010 |
| RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY | $1,397,861 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Patients with critical conditions such as cardiac arrest or major trauma often depend on prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) for life-saving care. Nevertheless, the evidence base for that care, particularly as it relates to transitions s between pr... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $882,960 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Enhanced Data to Accelerate Complex Patient Comparative Effectiveness Research-It is our premise that easy to use data products will accelerate meaningful comparative effectiveness research (CER). Claims data are extremely difficult to use, reququiring exte... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/29/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM | $1,497,848 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Comparative effectiveness research results, such as AHRQ's Comparative Effectiveness Reviews (CER), should reach all Americans, even hard-to-reach vulnerable groups. We propose a study in the Alabama Black Belt, which includes mostly African Amemericans (AA... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $1,492,002 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: A low literacy multimedia approach to disseminate bilingual diabetes CERSGs Improving the accessibility of CER findings is especially important for underserved populations. The overall objective of the proposed demonstration project is to test w whether a b... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/30/2010 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $1,253,920 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The primary Aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of Virginia Coordinated Care (VCC), particularly the primary care component, with that of a traditional safety net delivery system at reducing the frequency of emergency department ututilization,... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| FUNCTION1 | $1,474,960 | Contract | : To determine user requirements and specifications for public and private web portals supporting the needs of the HITRC Extension Program National Learning Consortium (NLC). Deliverables include a fully operational web portal as well as requirements docum | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE | $9,784,863 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Bipolar is a severe and lifelong illness affecting 4.5% of the population ? about 14 million people in the U.S. It is one of the top 10 most disabling medical conditions worldwide according to the World Health Organization. Traditionally, the momood stabili... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS AUTHORITY | $920,585 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Many experts have called for the redesign of primary care to better serve patients with chronic disease. Chronic disease performance measures as well as patient and provider satisfaction will improve as health care systems address the following g three issu... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/29/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $416,377 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The goal of this project is to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of lipid-lowering and antihypertensive medications among HIV-infected individuals. HIV infection itself may impact metabolic abnormalities such as dyslipidemia leading to cardrdiovascular... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,212,578 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Quarterly activities for award R01 HS20046-01 include intervention practice key informant interview transcription, coding and discussion. Preliminary results from the key informant interviews were presented to the Michigan and New York advisoryry committee... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| OGILVY PUBLIC RELATIONS WORLDWIDE INC. | $17,999,988 | Contract | : The purpose of this contract is to designate a national public relations firm to create a Publicity Center to enhance the ongoing AHRQ efforts to publicize and market comparative effectiveness research reports and associated materials to specific audience | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $361,109 | Grant | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support: With this analytic epidemiologic study, we begin investigating situations in which the treatment of one condition may exacerbate other conditions or adversely affect other health outcomes. Despite potential harms to the large number of older individuals w | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| HEALTH RESEARCH, INC. | $1,422,789 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The goal of this research program is to examine the comparative effectiveness of coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) procedures and percutaneous coronary artery interventions (PCI). This will be done by clinical enhancement of the New York Statete?s Statewi... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $1,992,440 | Grant | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support: UNC Mentored Career Development Program in Comparative Effectiveness Research - Description Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is critical in the U.S. today because it is viewed as central to health care reform. Meeting the current and future dema | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS | $6,466,949 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The primary goal of the PATIENT study (Promoting Adherence to Improve Effectiveness of Cardiovascular Disease Therapies) is to increase both initial use and ongoing adherence to three classes of medications used to treat diabetes or cardiovasculular disease... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/31/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, THE | $415,969 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This aims of this research are to assess the comparative effectiveness of Moderate-Dose and High-Dose Statins on cardiovascular event free survival; side-effect risk; and healthcare costs in complex AMI patients. This research will (1) exploit t the large n... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES | $9,999,742 | Contract | : The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a contract to American Institutes for Research. The contract is entitled Citizen's Forum. The contract was awarded in the amount of $9,999,742. The purpose of this contract is to establish | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/11/2010 |
| THE QUEEN'S MEDICAL CENTER | $1,322,999 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Enhancing Hawaii Hospital Information Content: There is a significant need to generate comprehensive information that will help health care professionals, patients, and their families make more informed health care decisions. We plan to enhance e the conten... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA | $972,883 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: High quality epidemiologic and comparative effectiveness research is needed to inform the health system about how to best care for people with multiple chronic illnesses since approximately one quarter of Americans fit this designation. The intetent of the ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/29/2010 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $823,873 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) Fellowship will provide both didactic and practical training in health services research for both MD and PhD post-doctoral fellows. The faculty, MD and PhPhD investig... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL | $3,378,263 | Contract | : MASTER AGREEMENT--Developing Evidence to Inform Decisions about Effectiveness: The DEcIDE Network Localized prostate cancer is a priority condition for comparative effectiveness research, and affects approximately 200,000 men in the US each year. This stu | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/13/2010 |
| HARVARD CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. | $7,177,459 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Grant number 1RO1HS019408, issued under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is to support the BELT: Blacks & Exacerbations on LABA vs. Tiotropium project conducted by Harvard Clinical Research Institute in collaboration with Brigigham and Wo... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY & PRACTICE PATTERNS INSTITUTE INC | $422,455 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Morbidity and mortality rates of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing dialysis in the US are unacceptably high. One area for improvement of patient survival is the management of anemia, the most common complication among dialysis p patients. T... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,486,234 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Autism and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are pervasive neurodevelopmental disorders first described over sixty years ago and diagnosed on the basis of significant impairments in social, communicative, cognitive and behavioral functioning. Sympmptoms persi... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $2,998,486 | Grant | Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support: Depression impairs functional status and worsens clinical outcomes including morbidity, mortality, utilization, and cost. A major complication is the co-morbidity of depression in diabetic patients, who are twice as likely to experience clinically signifi | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/27/2010 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY IN PROVIDENCE IN STATE OF RI AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS | $859,869 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Brown University's Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research seeks to supplement its 25-year AHRQ-funded post-doctoral training program to include three additional post-doctoral training slots for Comparative Effectiveness Research (CECER). Our Ce... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $845,270 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: One of the most important changes in the U.S. healthcare system in the past thirty years is the increased dissemination of data on health care quality at the health plan, hospital and physician level. There have been special challenges in measururing qualit... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE | $1,947,686 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The proposed grant will support an early career development program involving clinical investigators from the six Schools of the Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). It is desigigned to dev... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/01/2010 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, THE | $1,021,138 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The goal of this project is to adapt AHRQ comparative effectiveness research evidence reviews to meet the needs of state and regional payers, thereby enhancing the application of evidence in payer policy decisions across New England (NE). An impmportant com... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/12/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $9,177,577 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: DiMango, Emily/Kattan, Meyer In this application, we propose a clinical research trial to compare non-pharmacologic therapy and standard pharmacologic therapy in asthma. The target population includes inner-city minority individuals living in MaManhattan, t... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/30/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $1,122,961 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Comparative effectiveness research is increasingly becoming an essential tool in health care research, and decision-making, and qulaity improvement process. the newly enacted health care reform establishes a new perspective of health care servivices with e... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| PURDUE UNIVERSITY | $1,494,475 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The purpose of this project is to develop, apply, and evaluate the culture-centered approach (CCA) to tailoring Comparative Effectiveness Research Summary Guides (CERSGs) published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in ordeder to optim... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/26/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO | $1,438,166 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Comprehensive care models are emerging as the new standard for management of patients with chronic disease. These models typically involve a single source of care, such as a medical home, and coordinate a range of medical and psychosocial servicice interven... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS | $8,696,942 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Comparative effectiveness research (CER) requires that clinical data be in standard forms allowing multiple, large databases to be efficiently combined, and requires that all of the data be coded so that automated summarization of the data is popossible. H... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, THE | $8,309,543 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The overall goals of this project are to enhance the capacity and capability of a safety net focused distributed research network to conduct prospective comparative effectiveness research via a multi-setting, multi-state organization. The Scalabable Archite... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $1,184,308 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: SUMMARY PURPOSE: Adapt already-translated products and information from CER reviews for use in schools. ABSTRACT: The Center for Educational Outreach at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) proposes an innovative, school-based approach to adaptining content ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/12/2010 |
| HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC | $4,461,234 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This project, the Population-Based Effectiveness in Asthma and Lung Diseases (PEAL) Network, will create a new infrastructure to accelerate comparative effectiveness research in asthma and other lung diseases in diverse populations. The networkrk will incl... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/29/2010 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, THE | $4,556,778 | Contract | : End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is a growing public health burden. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major source of morbidity and mortality in patients with ESRD, but optimal strategies for reducing CVD related morbidity and mortality are not fully explor | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/14/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO | $1,376,805 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Last year we accomplished the following on the project: 1) Completed enrollment in the first (control arm) of the intervention, with a total of 55 persons with RA enrolled, of whom 19 (35%) speak English as their first language, 22 (40%) speak k Spanish, a... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/12/2010 |
| HEALTH, FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF | $981,252 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The overall aims of the Expansion of Research Capability to Study Comparative Effectiveness in Complex Patients project are (1) To establish a real-time linkage between Florida Cancer Data System, the statewide cancer registry, and hospital elelectronic me... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $8,855,607 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: This grant is is to advance comparative effectiveness research designed to improve hypertension care delivery and population outcomes by building on an existing institution-focused data infrastructure to create a robust community-focused data ininfrastructu... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS | $8,272,272 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The Scalable PArtnering Network for CER: Across Lifespan, Conditions, and Settings, or SPAN, will develop a distributed research network that is interoperable across a range of health care systems and sites, incorporating large and diverse patieient populat... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS | $462,430 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Project summary/abstract Clinicians who care for persons with complex chronic medical conditions face both competing demands and a lack of evidence regarding best processes of care for this heterogeneous population. Those clinicians facing decicisions abou... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY CARE NETWORKS, INC. | $991,332 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Research Capability to Study Comparative Effectiveness in Complex Patients 1. Creation of an integrated database to enhance infrastructure for comparative effectiveness research. We propose to link three separate databases maintained by the NC C Department... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITALS AUTHORITY | $3,070,882 | Contract | : This project will create an Indian Health Service (IHS) data infrastructure to provide critical information on health status, utilization and costs and to conduct comparative effectiveness research (CER) on strategies for providing education, case managem | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/27/2010 |
| WESTAT, INC. | $1,686,484 | Contract | : To assist the Indian Health System in addressing its quality improvement goals, Westat and its subcontractors are supporting the development of a data infrastructure that will accelerate comparative effectiveness research (CER) on the American Indian/Alas | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/01/2010 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS | $963,121 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PLAN: There is a problem with our primary care research: there is a lack of access to evidence about how to care for the multitude of patients with both chronic illnesses and mental health, behavioral health,h, or substa... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 7/30/2010 |
| PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH CARE, RESEARCH AND EDUCATION (INC) | $499,999 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: We propose an innovative exploratory research project focusing on patients with a constellation of three chronic conditions: (1) obesity, (2) hypertension, and (3) depression. A team with complementary capacities has been assembled for an analytytical epide... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| ABT ASSOCIATES INC. | $2,927,937 | Contract | : This Task Order serves the following functions of support to a program of R24 (Infrastructure Development) and R21 (Preliminary Research, in 2008 and 2010) grantees directed at Patient Centered Outcomes Research on complex patient populations: - Creation | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/27/2010 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $1,414,898 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Dissemination is an important, but neglected component of the research process. Currently, efforts focus on disseminating interventions that have been developed and evaluated through randomized trials; however, mechanisms are also needed to disssseminate th... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/26/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $498,183 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Background and Significance. In 2003-2005 Group Health implemented pharmacy-based, system-wide outreach efforts that increased statin use in enrollees with diabetes from 40 to 70%. Few studies have examined whether a large, population-level inincrease in ... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $2,831,392 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The G?Variations in Care: Comparing Heart Failure Care Transition Intervention EffectsG? is a comparative effectiveness project that examines approaches to improve variation in resource use and mortality among the five University of California M Medical Cen... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES | $996,014 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Comparing the Effectiveness of Diabetes Care Interventions in Safety Net Clinics Despite the large disease burden of diabetes, there is incomplete knowledge about the comparative effectiveness of quality improvement strategies for diabetes care e that are f... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $367,110 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Premature and very low birth weight (VLBW) infants are at a high risk for death, developmental delays, functional disabilities, and often have multiple complex chronic conditions, including bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), necrotizing enterocololitis (NEC)... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| HEALTH, NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF | $1,182,648 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The New Mexico Department of Health will improve the quality of race and ethnicity data in hospital discharge and emergency department databases in New Mexico. In addition, the project will collect tribal identifier data and establish methods anand procedur... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/30/2010 |
| PITTSBURGH REGIONAL HEALTHCARE INITIATIVE | $3,421,521 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: Title: Implementing Behavioral Health in Primary Care by Leveraging AHRQ Networks Behavioral health problems are among the most prevalent of health problems in the United States and are directly related to poor healthcare quality and higher utitilization o... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |
| WESTAT, INC. | $858,099 | Contract | : As part of the Health Information Technology Research Center (HITRC), Westat will identify, develop, and disseminate educational tools and resources to assist 60 to 70 regional extension centers (RECs) nationwide work with providers in their communities t | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| CONNECTICUT CENTER PRIMARY CARE INC | $924,315 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The primary aim of this project is to build an analytic database infrastructure that will expand the capability of the Connecticut Center for Primary Care (CCPC) to conduct comparative effectiveness research (CE) on complex patients who are seenen by the pr... Show more | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 8/13/2010 |
| WESTAT, INC. | $10,682,420 | Contract | : The purpose of the award is to support the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to plan, implement, maintain and evaluate performed of a collaborative Knowledge Sharing Network (KSN) for the Health Information Technol | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 3/31/2010 |
| HARVARD CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC. | $7,177,459 | Grant | Recovery Act Comparative Effectiveness Research - AHRQ: The purpose is to run a comparative effectiveness clinical trial on asthma in African-American adults to determine if specific genotypes determine the response to LABA/ICS medications versus a non-B-adrenergic bronchodilator/ICS combination | Health and Human Services, Department of / Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality | 9/28/2010 |