Research to Advance Primary Care-Pharmacy Linkage for Medication Review to Reduce Older Adult Falls (RFA-CE-16-002)

Research to Advance Primary Care-Pharmacy Linkage for Medication Review to Reduce Older Adult Falls (RFA-CE-16-002)

CDC’s Injury Center intends to commit approximately $1,050,000 over a 3-year project period with a maximum of $350,000 per year. This funding will support one application to research how community pharmacists can work with their primary care providers on medication management to increase the potential health impact of fall prevention efforts. Promising practices identified by this research could be reproduced and integrated into more comprehensive fall risk assessment and management strategies.

The purpose of this research is to investigate sustainable and reproducible models that would link community pharmacists to primary care providers, enhancing medication review and management to reduce the risk of falls in older adults. This research should also examine potential health benefits, implementation costs, and sustainability of the proposed pharmacy-primary care linkages.

Important Dates

• Letter of Intent Due: 01/15/2016
• Application Due: 02/15/2016

Learn More

• The funding opportunity announcement can be found at http://www.grants.gov/. Note that amendments to the announcement focus and application dates are possible. Please check for updates on grants.gov.
• Learn more about CDC’s STEADI initiative at http://www.cdc.gov/STEADI.