Scope: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality solicits applications to support discrete, specified health services research projects. Specific priority areas of focus include:

Improving health care quality by accelerating implementation of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR); making health care safer; increasing accessibility by evaluating insurance coverage; and improving health care affordability, efficiency and cost transparency.

Deadline: Oct. 5, 2014; Feb. 5, 2015; June 5, 2015; and Oct. 5, 2015.

Funds: The number of awards depends on NIH appropriations and the submission of a sufficient of quality applications. The maximum project period is five years.

Eligibility: Colleges and universities; nonprofit organizations; state governments; and Native American tribal governments and organizations.

Requirements: No match requirement.

For more information:http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/search-grants.html?keywords=PA-14-291