Patient Safety in the Context of Perinatal, Neonatal, and Pediatric Care (R21) | Apply Online

Opportunity Summary:

The Patient Safety in the Context of Perinatal, Neonatal, and Pediatric Care (R21) opportunity (Funding Opportunity Number PA-14-311) is an NIH discretionary grant program designed to support exploratory and developmental research focused on improving patient safety for mothers and infants around birth, newborns, and children. The emphasis is on practical, collaborative studies that address safety risks in both routine hospital care and high-acuity environments such as neonatal and pediatric intensive care units. The overall goal is to generate knowledge that can be translated into safer, higher-quality care for these vulnerable populations, with an explicit focus on preventing harm and strengthening the reliability of care delivery.

At its core, the announcement invites research that examines medical errors and patient harm in perinatal, neonatal, and pediatric contexts. It encourages projects that map out the epidemiology of safety problems (for example, how often certain errors occur, in what settings, and with what consequences), along with studies that identify contributing factors at multiple levels. That multi-level framing is important: applicants are encouraged to look beyond individual mistakes to include team dynamics, clinical workflows, communication patterns, technology and device design, organizational policies, staffing models, institutional safety culture, and other system-level drivers that can increase or reduce risk. In addition to describing and explaining safety problems, the FOA explicitly welcomes intervention-focused work, including strategies that operate at the individual clinician level, the care-team or unit level, and the broader institutional level. The intent is to support work that helps reduce or eliminate medical errors, not only by documenting where failures happen but also by testing approaches that make care processes more resilient.

Because this is an R21 mechanism, it is geared toward early-stage, innovative, or high-impact ideas that may still be in an exploratory phase rather than large, definitive clinical trials. In practice, that can include piloting new safety interventions, developing and validating measurement approaches for pediatric or neonatal safety events, designing and testing decision-support tools, studying implementation barriers in real-world hospital settings, or generating preliminary data needed for larger follow-on studies. The announcement also signals a strong preference for collaboration, which fits patient safety research that often requires multidisciplinary teams spanning clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, human factors experts, informaticians, health services researchers, and hospital quality and safety leaders.

Administratively, the program is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and falls under CFDA 93.865 (Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research). It does not require cost sharing or matching. The FOA was posted on August 6, 2014, with an original and current closing date listed as September 7, 2017, and an archive date of October 8, 2017, meaning it is no longer open for new applications under that specific announcement, though similar NIH patient safety funding opportunities may exist under newer solicitations. The listing shows award floor and ceiling as 0, which typically indicates that specific budget limits are defined in the full FOA and/or by the standard rules of the R21 mechanism rather than in the summary fields.

Eligibility is broad and includes many types of domestic U.S. organizations as well as foreign entities. Eligible applicants include state, county, city, township, and special district governments; independent school districts; public and state-controlled institutions of higher education; private institutions of higher education; nonprofit organizations both with and without 501(c)(3) status; small businesses; and for-profit organizations other than small businesses. The eligibility language also explicitly includes a range of mission-specific and community-based institutions and organizations, such as HBCUs, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribally controlled colleges and universities, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions, AANAPISIs, faith-based or community-based organizations, and eligible federal agencies. Importantly, non-U.S. organizations and institutions are eligible to apply, non-U.S. components of U.S. organizations may apply, and foreign components are allowed as defined by NIH policy, which supports international collaboration when justified by the research aims.

For reference and administrative help, the FOA points applicants to the NIH Grants Guide page (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-14-311.html). Technical or access issues are routed to the NIH Office of Extramural Research webmaster (FBOWebmaster@OD.NIH.GOV), including trouble accessing the announcement or linking to it.

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