This Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcement (NOFO) invites applications for the development of Diagnostic Centers of Excellence (DCE).
The role of a DCE is to support a component of diagnostic care in an integrated cross-disciplinary health system.
Each DCE will develop expertise in
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one or two focus areas of diagnostic improvement.
There are four areas of focus.
Two of the areas of focus are aligned with frontline diagnostician support:
1) Safety-I error detection and prevention and 2) Safety-II resilience for safe practice Two additional areas of focus are aligned with improving diagnostic systems:
3) improving diagnostic precision through consensus and 4) improving truth or diagnostic reference standards.