The National Institutes of Health is seeking applications to provide national leadership for the NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory Research Program on evidence-based non-pharmacological interventions for pain management in U.S. Veterans, military personnel, and/or their families.
Donor Name: National Institutes of Health
State: All States
County: All Counties
Territory: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 08/01/2023
Size of the Grant: $1,300,000
Grant Duration: 6 years
Details:
Other NOFOs will solicit high-impact Demonstration Projects, will expand the PMC program to include pain management approaches not presently being addressed by the current PMC studies, especially studies that take into account whole person outcomes. The Pain Management Collaboratory program will continue to leverage the infrastructure, experience, and expertise thus far established by the Coordinating Center to provide technical expertise and support to investigators conducting efficient, large-scale pragmatic or implementation clinical trials to evaluate evidence-based non-drug interventions, either alone or in combination with pharmacologic treatment, to improve pain management for U.S. Veterans, military personnel, and/or their families, while prioritizing integrative approaches that address the whole person. Military and veteran health care systems and other health care systems that provide services to Veterans, military personnel, and their families are the targeted organizations for this program. Research conducted in partnership with eligible VA and DoD health care providers is essential for obtaining meaningful and relevant research results in “real world” health care delivery systems serving veterans, service members, and their beneficiaries.
The NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Research Collaboratory will:
- establish a Coordinating Center to provide leadership and technical expertise in all aspects of research supporting the design and execution of high impact Demonstration Projects that conduct pragmatic clinical trials on non-pharmacologic approaches for pain management and other comorbid conditions in Veteran and/or military health care systems (supported by this NOFO);
- support the design and execution of additional high-impact pragmatic clinical trials focusing on effectiveness research, implementation research, or hybrid effectiveness-implementation research on approaches to pain management and comorbidities with patients in health care delivery systems that provide care to Veterans, military personnel, and their families; and
- make available data, tools, best practices, and resources from these and other projects to facilitate a research partnership with health care delivery systems that provide care to Veterans, military personnel, and their families.
Coordinating Center Overview
The Coordinating Center is expected to provide leadership for the NIH-DoD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory Research Program. The Coordinating Center will need to:
- further develop, adapt, and adopt technical and policy guidelines and best practices for the effective conduct of pragmatic clinical trials in partnership with health care systems focused on U.S. Veterans, military personnel, and their families;
- work collaboratively with, and provide technical, design, and other support to Demonstration Project teams, to develop and implement a research protocol; and
- widely disseminate Pain Management Collaboratory-endorsed policies and best practices and lessons learned for implementing research within health care settings that deliver health care to U.S. Veterans, military personnel, and their families.
The Coordinating Center is expected to have at a minimum significant knowledge in the following areas:
- Providing national leadership and engage all stakeholders in advancing policies and practices that enhance the broad participation of researchers and health care systems in research focused on non-pharmacologic approaches for the management of pain and comorbid conditions in U.S. Veterans, service members, and/or their families
- Improving the capability, methods, and technologies used in addressing research important to effect health improvement regarding non-pharmacological approaches
- Specific tasks and accomplishments of the Coordinating Center and associated Working Groups
- Approaches that allow the use of patient reported outcomes or other descriptive protocols, and algorithms developed elsewhere to address questions relevant to the PMC Collaboratory
- Basic requirements for technical, policy, and workflow practices, needed for health systems participation in research
- Defining the needs, requirements, and approaches to conduct pragmatic clinical trials on non-pharmacological approaches to health promotion in partnership with eligible health care systems
- Processes and agreements needed to address regulatory requirements for single and multiple health care systems that provide services to Veterans, military personnel, and/or their families
- Processes and best practices for ethical conduct of pragmatic clinical trials in eligible health care settings that obtain input from health care system leadership, patients, family members, providers, and researchers
- Mechanisms for leveraging novel collaboration and communication strategies, as well as creativity and flexibility to innovate on an ongoing basis.
Funding Information
Direct costs requested for the first three years may not exceed $1.3 million per year; direct costs for years 4 to 6 may not exceed $1.0 million per year.
Award Project Period
The total project period for an application submitted in response to this NOFO may not exceed 6 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:
- 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
- Small Businesses
- For-Profit Organizations (Other than Small Businesses)
- 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 Governments
- 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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