OpportunityTitle: Use of a Medical Data Warehouse in a Laboratory Quality Improvement Initiative that Links to Patient and System Outcomes
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Selected applicant eligibility is in compliance with applicant eligibility authorized under statuatory authority Public Health Service Act, Section 317(k)(2), 42 U.S.C. 247b(k)(2), and the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) number 93.064.  Applicants must have experience in the administration and evaluation of standardized quality assurance programs in multiple, diverse laboratory sites (including community hospitals and academic medical centers) as specified in CFDA 93.064.
Description: The purpose of this project is to support a collaborative opportunity to develop, implement, and evaluate a process to assess the usefulness of data contained within a medical data warehouse to document and address quality gaps in the pre-, intra-, and/or post-analytic phases of clinical laboratory medicine that can be linked to patient and/or system outcomes. This will include exploring relevant aspects of MDW data management and analytics to derive quality improvement insights to inform the development, implementation, and evaluation of clinical laboratory quality improvement initiative(s).
GrantorContactEmailDescription: OGSTIM@cdc.gov
GrantorContactText: Technical Information Management Section &lt;br/&gt;                 &lt;br/&gt;Department of Health and Human Services &lt;br/&gt;CDC Office of Financial Resources &lt;br/&gt;Office of Grants Services &lt;br/&gt;2920 Brandywine Road, MS E-14 &lt;br/&gt;Atlanta, GA 30341 &lt;br/&gt;Telephone: 770-488-2700
CloseDateExplanation: Electronically submitted applications must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m., EDT, on the listed application due date.