The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) Award Implementation Grants to Specialty Societies Seeking to Improve Diagnostic Feedback
Washington, DC –
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in partnership with the Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) has awarded three implementation grants that build upon the work of specialty societies on closing the diagnostic loop by providing frontline clinicians with feedback on their diagnostic performance in clinical registries. Additionally, the grant program has awarded one seed grant to support a specialty society in the early stages of planning and development as it builds its registry.
Feedback about diagnostic decision-making and performance is an important intervention to improve learning and future diagnostic performance. The awards address a variety of projects to improve diagnostic feedback for lupus nephritis, diseases of the eye, pulmonary nodules, and autism spectrum disorder and depression in pediatric patients.
These awards are the result of a competitive grant program administered by UCSF and CMSS and funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to support medical specialty societies in the development of diagnostic performance feedback using clinical registries.
Proposals were reviewed by an external advisory committee comprised of a diverse group of national experts in diagnostic performance, informatics, quality improvement and research.
UCSF and CMSS are pleased to announce the following recipients of the Implementation Grants:
- American Academy of Ophthalmology – Diagnostic Performance Feedback for Ophthalmology through the IRIS® Registry (Intelligent Research in Sight)
- American College of Radiology – Implementation of the Early Detection of Lung Cancer Registry Supporting Diagnostic Performance Feedback
- American College of Rheumatology – Feedback on Diagnostic Pathway Adherence at Scale for the Timely Diagnosis of Lupus Nephritis in Routine Clinical Practice: Leveraging the American College of Rheumatology’s RISE Registry
- American Academy of Pediatrics – Improving Diagnostic Excellence through Pediatric Primary Care Performance Feedback: CHILD Registry*
*Seed Grant recipient
In addition to the selection and provision of grants to individual societies, UCSF, in partnership with CMSS, serves as a coordinating center to monitor and promote cross-specialty learning, improvement, collaboration, and identification of best practices in diagnostic performance feedback that can be shared with the broader medical community.
“Over the last year, with the generous support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the American College of Radiology, the American College of Rheumatology, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the American Academy of Pediatrics have thoughtfully laid the groundwork for providing diagnostic performance feedback to their clinician members,” said UCSF’s Ben Rosner, MD, PhD, the Principal Investigator for the project. “We are excited to support these societies with funding to turn these plans into reality. We hope that these will serve as models in healthcare for providing feedback on diagnostic performance that will ultimately benefit patients.”
“It has been gratifying to see our specialty society members with clinical registries embrace new and innovative approaches to diagnostic feedback for their physician members.” said Helen Burstin, MD, MPH, MACP, CMSS’s CEO and co-lead of the project. “Now that the planning phase is complete, we look forward to working with UCSF and the societies that received implementation awards to drive meaningful improvement in diagnosis.”
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The Council of Medical Specialty Societies (CMSS) is a coalition of more than 50 specialty societies representing more than 800,000 physicians across the house of medicine. CMSS advances the expertise and collective voice of specialty societies and the patients they serve to drive meaningful change in the future of healthcare. www.cmss.org
The University of California, San Francisco is the leading university exclusively focused on health. Through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in care delivery, UCSF spearheads revolutions in health worldwide. www.ucsf.edu
Media Contacts:
CMSS: Julia Peterson, Chief Operating Officer, jpeterson@cmss.org
UCSF: Mika Rivera, Director of Communications, mika.rivera@ucsf.edu