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Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Organizations
Only organizations that administer and directly provide an intervention to the target population are eligible to apply. All interventions proposed for evaluation must occur within the direct context of a consistent source of health care or delivery. The intervention must be implemented and evaluated in at least three distinct sites to allow assessment of replicability.
The following types of organizations are eligible as primary/lead applicants:
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Provider organizations (e.g., medical groups, hospitals, community health centers).
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Health plans and employers.
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Other organizations directly involved in health care provision or administration (e.g., a network or consortium of provider groups).
Eligible Interventions
Proposed interventions must improve the quality of care for patients affected by racial or ethnic health care disparities. Finding Answers seeks to evaluate a variety of interventions.
The following types of interventions are eligible for funding:
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Policy interventions. Incentives for consumers to reduce disparities, and provider performance incentives (e.g., public reporting of performance data).
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Organizational interventions, such as nurse-led team care, implementation of health information technology, redesign of the clinical practice operation and incorporation of quality improvement techniques.
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Provider interventions, including programs to improve the ability of health care staff to understand their patients’ cultural characteristics or to improve communication between providers and patients.
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Patient interventions, for example, to activate patients and consumers to improve the quality of their own care and reduce disparities, and disease management programs that target patient behavior. Proposals addressing American Indian and Asian American populations are encouraged due to the relative lack of intervention research targeting these populations. Due to the disproportionate impact of cardiovascular disease and diabetes on older populations, Finding Answers seeks to fund intervention evaluation projects across the entire adult age spectrum.
Complete eligibility and selection criteria can be found in the current Call for Proposals (CFP). |
