The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released a Request for Applications (RFA) to fund projects that use evidence-based approaches to disseminate and implement patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) findings to improve identification and management of unhealthy alcohol use among adults in primary care practices.
Projects funded through this RFA will aim to improve screening and brief intervention (SBI) and medication-assisted therapy (MAT) in primary care practices, with a focus on small and medium-sized practices (with 10 or fewer lead clinicians) and practices that have low rates of screening, access to community supports, and non-integrated behavioral health services. Organizations may also choose to incorporate screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) into the project for patients whose needs cannot be adequately met in a primary care setting. AHRQ plans to award up to $13.5 million total over three years to support up to six projects.
The full RFA is available here and a summary can be found here. Applications are due on January 4, 2019.