Healthcare Access and Community Care Active Projects Inventory
One of the Access and Community Care Engagement Network Team’s (ACCENT) core activities is to synthesize and maintain a “state of the science” active project inventory containing information about funded studies related to access to care and community care.
Active Projects Inventory
This database contains information about VA-funded studies that ACCENT has learned about. The data will be updated at least annually.
This is a public database of currently funded VA Health Systems Research (HSR) and Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) studies addressing healthcare access and community care. It is meant to foster high-impact research by helping researchers to appreciate the current landscape of research into these areas, to better identify gaps in research and to serve as a resource for systematic reviews.
Data are available in an Excel spreadsheet which contains a ReadMe tab with details on the process of creating the list, a data dictionary and inclusion/exclusion criteria, and a Database tab.
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Disclaimers:
- We are continually updating our inventory and the information contained it. It can be challenging to code information about a project reliably; we depend on the grant data sources and investigators we contact to provide us information such as abstracts/aims and help us categorize studies correctly.
- Projects that are no longer funded, or which have not yet started are not included in RAFT and therefore may not yet have come to ACCENT’s attention—there may be a substantial time lag before a project appears in our inventory as a result.
- If you are an investigator on an active VA-funded project and don’t see your project or feel your project’s information is incorrect, please reach out to us to help us fix it by emailing accent.data@va.gov.
ACCENT identifies and categorizes projects using the following sources:
- Office of Research and Development RAFT database: This database is maintained by ORD and includes actively funded ORD-funded projects. ORD codes for projects that are focused on access to care, but not on community care.
- Follow-up communications with investigators of funded projects
- Specific solicitations from Centers (e.g., QUERI Evidence-based Policy (EBP) Centers, VA HSR COnsortia of REsearch (COREs))
- Word of mouth (from investigators, leadership, program officers, etc.)
- Coming next year: additional search query tools such as NIH Reporter (Query Form - NIH RePORTER - NIH Research Portfolio Online Reporting Tools Expenditures and Results) and Clinical Trials.gov.
Funding
This project is funded by a VA Health Systems Research Consortia of Research (CORE) Grant (COR 23-190).
