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HEAL Initiative: Research to Foster an Opioid Use Disorder Treatment System Patients Can Count On 

The National Institutes of Health is seeking applications for multi-disciplinary RM1 Research Centers (RM1s) that involve partnerships between researchers and payors, health plans, single state agencies/opioid treatment authorities, professional organizations, or other entities.

Donor Name: National Institutes of Health

State: All States

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 02/02/2023

Size of the Grant: $1,500,000

Grant Duration: 5 years

Details:

This FOA solicits applications for multi-project RM1 Opioid Use Disorder Quality Measurement and Management Research Centers (OUD-QM2RCs). OUD-QM2RCs will involve researchers and a partner organization with a deployed or in-development quality measurement strategy for opioid use disorder treatment that rigorous, scientific research could substantially advance. The ultimate goal is the creation of feasible, efficient quality measurement and management systems that provide meaningful information to 1. help patients, families, and payors fairly compare and select providers and 2. help clinicians and providers improve patient outcomes. OUD-QM2RCs should:

  • Identify key aspects of the partner’s quality measurement/management strategy that require additional rigorous research;
  • Conduct the research; and
  • Test or prepare to test the system resulting from that research to determine if implementing it improves patient outcomes.

For the purposes of this RFA, a quality measurement and management system is defined as a system that, at a minimum, collects data on quality measures and reports the information back to individuals, families, and payors to help them fairly compare and select providers and to clinicians, providers and health care systems to promote quality improvement. Other aspects, for example specific practices to promote improvement or methods to report information to regulators or payors, may also be included in a quality measurement and management system relevant to this RFA.

Relevant research projects will depend on the stage of development and needs of the chosen strategy. Examples of relevant research activities may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Identifying opportunities for improvement in the measures currently used in the quality strategy and rigorously testing whether improvements in measured performance lead to improvements in patient outcomes.
  • Identifying an efficient, low burden set of essential core measures.
  • Using rigorous scientific methods to develop and implement benchmark levels for the quality measures or combinations of measures sufficient to incentivize improvement and/or signify high-quality treatment.
  • Developing, testing, and implementing a casemix measurement system that allows patient severity to be assessed accurately and providers and clinicians to be compared fairly.
  • Identifying potentially relevant predictors of response (e.g., social determinants of health, scores on symptom checklists, combinations of factors, biomarkers) to inform casemix development and/or patient outcome measurement and developing feasible measurement and reporting protocols.
  • Adding clinically informative patient outcomes and patient experience of care measures to a strategy that currently relies on administrative data and/or provider reported data.
  • Developing, testing, and implementing approaches for clinicians to use to improve their performance on specific quality measures.
  • Implementing state-of-the-art data collection, analysis, and reporting technologies to improve the quality and timeliness of the data.
  • Conceptualizing and testing for unintended consequences of the deployment of the selected measurement and management system and testing approaches for mitigating those effects.

Funding Information

  • Award Ceiling: $1,500,000
  • The maximum project period is 5 years.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Higher Education Institutions
    • Public/State Controlled Institutions of Higher Education
    • Private Institutions of Higher Education
  • The following types of Higher Education Institutions are always encouraged to apply for NIH support as Public or Private Institutions of Higher Education:
    • Hispanic-serving Institutions
    • Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
    • Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs)
    • Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Serving Institutions
    • Asian American Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs)
  • Nonprofits Other Than Institutions of Higher Education
    • Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
    • Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) IRS Status (Other than Institutions of Higher Education)
  • For-Profit Organizations
  • Local Governments
    • State Governments
    • County Governments
    • City or Township Governments
    • Special District Governments
    • Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Federally Recognized)
    • Indian/Native American Tribal Governments (Other than Federally Recognized)
  • Federal Government
    • Eligible Agencies of the Federal Government
    • U.S. Territory or Possession
  • Other
    • Independent School Districts
    • Public Housing Authorities/Indian Housing Authorities
    • Native American Tribal Organizations (other than Federally recognized tribal governments)
    • Faith-based or Community-based Organizations
    • Regional Organizations.

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