October 2001 • Volume 7 • Number 10
AHRQ awards $750,000 in grants to Academy
The Academy's interest in improving patient care has been bolstered by two grants worth $750,000 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The money will fund three projects of AAFP's National Network for Family Practice and Primary Care Research.
The first grant, worth about $200,000 per year for three years, will create a National Developmental Center for Evaluation and Research in Patient Safety in Primary Care. Through the national research network, the center will focus on identifying medical errors and near misses and will develop and test patient safety tools in actual practices. The network currently includes 117 clinical practices in 34 states and Canada.
The second grant, worth about $150,000, is a continuation grant that will develop two research projects. One will test two methods of data collection -- paper versus personal digital assistants -- to study pneumococcal immunization in elderly adults. The second research project will collect information about patient-physician encounters from network physicians using the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.
John Hickner, M.D., M.S., network director and a professor of family practice at Michigan State University, East Lansing, will be the principal investigator of the studies. James Galliher, Ph.D., research director will be the co-investigator.
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