THE AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY plans to fund three centers of excellence to study how high-performing health care systems promote evidence-based practices in delivering care. The grants were announced at AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting in Minneapolis by Richard Kronick, director of AHRQ.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
