This requirement is designed to enable AHRQ to secure the necessary resources, capacities and expertise needed to conduct field‐based research and quality improvement and to support the dissemination and implementation of findings to promote broad impact.
Key elements of the model that will be sustained include:
A continued heavy focus on field‐based, real‐world informed development, testing and implementation of new approaches for improving care safety and quality;
Use of multi‐disciplinary teams to conduct research and quality improvement in diverse real world care settings, including but not limited to, health systems;
Development of practical tools, guidance and training to support effective implementation and sustainment of new approaches or interventions…
New elements will reflect AHRQ’s interest in leveraging our core competencies in order to address four new objectives. These are:
Supporting efforts by Learning Health Systems (LHS) to use knowledge and data generated internally and/or shared among systems to support continuous improvement in clinical care and care delivery. This objective would be focused on:
- Investigating how to effectively build the capacity of health systems to integrate and use clinical, operational, financial, and patient experience data in ways that allow learning and discovery about how to improve.
- Supporting health systems in their journeys to becoming learning health systems
- Using data to identify and answer question of particular interest…
