The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine: Age-Friendly DxQI Seed Grant and Age-Friendly Care Fellowship
The Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine (SIDM) and The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF) have partnered to improve diagnosis with the creation of the Age-Friendly DxQI Seed Grant and the Age-Friendly Care Fellowship in Diagnostic Excellence.
SIDM and JAHF are committed to improving health care and ensuring better health outcomes for patients. By recognizing our shared vision and motivation to address diagnostic disparities affecting older adults specifically, we are expanding the DxQI Seed Grant Program and the Fellowship in Diagnostic Excellence to include an Age-Friendly Care Seed Grant and an Age-Friendly Care Fellow that each focus on improving diagnostic excellence in the older adult population.
This work is vital because diagnostic error in older adults is common and errors frequently arise from contributing factors that are unique to this population, including polypharmacy, cognitive issues such as dementia, mobility limitations, and chronic illnesses.
SIDM’s DxQI Seed Grant Program and Fellowship in Diagnostic Excellence support the development and implementation of projects designed to improve diagnosis and eliminate harm from diagnostic error in vulnerable communities. More specifically:
- The Seed Grant Program engages healthcare organizations to identify, develop, and test interventions aimed at improving diagnostic quality and reducing harm from diagnostic error. The Seed Grant offers an award of $50,000 and the application is scheduled to close on April 8.
- The Fellowship Program matches qualified candidates with mentors who are recognized leaders in diagnostic error education, research, or practice improvement to develop and implement a project to improve diagnostic quality and safety. The fellowship offers an award stipend of $40,000 towards tuition, project expenses, and salary and project expenses and the application is scheduled to close on March 8.
Within the scope of this new focus and mutual interest, we will pool efforts to improve diagnosis and health care for older adults across the nation, continuously striving for high-quality, age-friendly care that is reliably evidence-based and focused on what matters most to older adults.
The John A. Hartford Foundation has also partnered with the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) to support an NAM Scholar in Diagnostic Excellence with a focus on advancing equity and diagnostic excellence for older adults.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly DxQI Seed Grant and to apply, click here.
To learn more about the Age-Friendly Care Fellowship in Diagnostic Excellence and to apply, click here.
