Clarification of Application Submission Instructions for RFA-RM-12-002: NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory - Pragmatic Trials Demonstration Projects (UH2/UH3)

Notice Number: NOT-RM-12-020

Release Date: May 1, 2012

NOT-RM-12-013
NOT-RM-12-016

National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Office of Strategic Coordination (Common Fund)

This Notice is to clarify the application submission instructions RFA-RM-12-002: NIH Health Care Systems Research Collaboratory Pragmatic Clinical Trials Demonstration Projects (UH2/UH3).

The Specific Aims page (limited to 1 page) for the one-year planning phase (UH2) of the project should be submitted electronically as the Specific Aims attachment.

The Specific Aims (limited to 1 page) for the implementation phase (UH3) of the project should be submitted as the first page of the Research Strategy attachment, which should then be followed by the Research Strategy for both the planning (UH2) and implementation (UH3) phases of the project. The Research Strategy attachment is therefore limited to 31 pages (1 page for the Specific Aims of the UH3 phase and 30 pages for the Research Strategy of the UH2 and UH3 phases).

Please direct all inquiries to:

Dale Birkle Dreer, PhD, on behalf of the HCS Research Collaboratory Working Group
Office of Scientific Review
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
National Institutes of Health
6707 Democracy Blvd., Suite 401
Bethesda, MD 20892
ph: 301-451-6570
e-mail: birkled@mail.nih.gov