Research Awards & Grants

POSNA Peter Armstrong QSVI Grant

Amount: Up to $30,000
Grants/Year: 1
Duration: 1 year
Focus: The goal of this grant is to encourage members in developing and implementing quality and patient safety programming at their own institutions and/or among their colleagues. 
Description:

Complete applications include: 

  • Abstract: succinctly describe every major aspect of the grant: what, why, and how (Performance measure, patient safety, CPG, AUC, etc.). 
  • Specific Aims: What are you doing? 
  • Background and significance: Why are you doing this? 
  • Preliminary studies and results: What you have already done and how did you do it? 
  • Research design and methods: How you plan to do the research, why you are doing it this way, when and where you are doing it, how you will analyze the data 
  • Budget justification: personnel, equipment, software, travel costs, etc. 

Scoring Criteria: Projects will be scored based on impact and feasibility.
  • Applicant must be a member in good standing. 
  • Proposed projects should be limited to quality and patient safety initiatives and related advocacy, such as performance measures, patient safety checklists, appropriate use criteria, clinical practice guidelines, and any derivatives. 
  • The suggested project must fit within an area of importance to the membership of POSNA.
Additional Information:
Questions? Please contact Traci Russell at russell@posna.org (630) 478-0483
Eligibility Criteria:
  • Principal Investigator must be a Candidate member or an Active member of POSNA in good standing. 
  • Non-orthopaedic surgeon MDs, PhDs, or DVMs are eligible to apply if affiliated with an orthopaedic department and working with an orthopaedic surgeon/POSNA member who is the Co-PI. 
  • Current grant or award recipients, with the exception of current microgrant recipients, cannot apply for a future grant as a PI, as one of multiple investigators, or as a co-investigator until the current award/grant research is completed and all final reports and expense reports have been submitted and accepted. An exception can be made if a co-investigator is due less than $5,000 for the remaining timeline of the grant, inclusive of any payment made during the current calendar year.