Patient/Client Safety in Home Care in Canada - Request for Applications

  

To help identify the scope of the patient safety challenge in home care, the Canadian Patient Safety Institute has partnered with other sponsoring organizations – including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), Institute of Aging (IA), Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health (ICRH) and Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis (IMHA); The Change Foundation; and the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHSRF) – who are committed to supporting research that generates new knowledge and that contributes to improving the safety of home care services for Canadian home care clients.

As a collaborative initiative, the sponsors are pleased to announce the following Request for Applications: "Patient/Client Safety in Home Care in Canada".

"The creation of this funding opportunity recognizes the critical importance of the home care sector in the patient safety agenda. Health policy-makers, managers and care providers need strong research-based evidence on effective and practical solutions to improve patient safety in home care," said Dr. Colleen Flood, Scientific Director of CIHR's Institute of Health Services and Policy Research. "On behalf of my CIHR colleagues and partners Dr. Peter Liu (Scientific Director, Institute of Circulatory and Respiratory Health), Dr. Anne Martin-Matthews (Scientific Director, Institute of Aging) and Dr. Jane Aubin (Scientific Director, Institute of Musculoskeletal Health and Arthritis), we are thrilled to support this important national effort to make home care safer for Canadians."

The maximum funding available to research applicants for this project is $1.2 million.

The application deadline for the above funding opportunity is April 8, 2010 at 12:00pm MT.

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To find out more about the Patient/Client Safety in Home Care in Canada Request for Applications, see the Canadian Patient Safety Institute (CPSI) website.