Deadline:

Jun 12, 2008 - Closed

Program Area:

Quality/Equality

Purpose:

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is committed to ensuring that all Americans receive quality health care. Specifically, we aim to help communities across the country set and achieve ambitious goals to improve the quality of health care in ways that matter to patients and families, including patients from racial and ethnic backgrounds who often experience lower quality care. Through this solicitation, we seek proposals for projects to examine the effects of public reporting and pay-for-performance on quality of care.

Program Information:

• Call for Proposals

Eligibility & Selection Criteria:

Interdisciplinary teams that include investigators focused on public reporting and pay-for-performance are encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to those applicants who may be either public entities or nonprofit organizations that are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Applicant organizations must be based in the U.S. or its territories.

Proposals should demonstrate the potential to produce high-quality, scientifically sound research. We are interested in proposals including, but not limited to: demonstration projects, retrospective studies, case studies and secondary data analyses. If you propose to study a demonstration project, at least 80 percent of the grant should fund the evaluation of the demonstration rather than the implementation. We will assess each proposal based on the degree to which it:

• contributes new literature to the existing evidence base;
• articulates a clear hypothesis or conceptual framework that guides the design of the study;
• describes a plan for systematic data collection and analysis;
• describes the project’s deliverables and expected outcomes;
• provides evidence of timely access to necessary data, settings and study populations;
• provides evidence of the contribution of a particular approach to the study question;
• is original to this call for proposals and not part of previous studies;
• documents that the experience, qualifications and time commitment of the investigator(s) and key project staff are adequate for conducting the proposed project; and
• justifies the budget request and timeline.

Key Dates:

• June 12, 2008 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of brief proposals.
• July 28-31, 2008—Applicants notified if invited to submit a full proposal.
• September 4, 2008 (3 p.m. ET)—Deadline for receipt of full proposals.
• December 1, 2008—Start of grants.

Total Award:

Up to $4 million is available for grants of up to three years for policy-relevant research.

• Public Reporting—A maximum of two 3-year grants of up to $400,000 each, and a maximum of six 2-year grants of up to $200,000 each will be awarded.
• Pay-for-Performance—A maximum of two 3-year grants of up to $400,000 each, and a maximum of six 2-year grants of up to $200,000 each will be awarded.

Contact:

Helen Mathew
quality-equality2@rwjf.org

Related Materials:

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