The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) mission is to produce evidence to make healthcare safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, and affordable, and to work within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and with other partners to make sure that the evidence is understood and used.
The "Research to Advance the Science of Primary Care (R01)" grant seeks to fund projects that build evidence regarding the effective characteristics and value of primary care. It focuses on aspects such as care coordination, continuity of care, comprehensiveness, person-centered and whole healthcare, and trust. The grant emphasizes the improvement and effective delivery of primary healthcare to strengthen its foundation and enhance health equity. Specific areas of interest include improving primary care quality, safety, access, affordability, workforce, care delivery models, financing, digital healthcare, person-centeredness, and addressing health equity. It also encompasses harnessing data and technology for researching primary care characteristics that influence patient outcomes and managing clinical areas unique to primary care, like multiple chronic conditions, preventive care, and integrated mental health care.