The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), with support from the Helping to End Addiction Long-term® Initiative, or NIH HEAL Initiative®, published a notice of funding opportunity for pragmatic clinical trials within the infrastructure of the NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC).
Read the full notice of funding opportunity (RFA-AT-24-011).
The PMC was established in 2017 with an initial cohort of 11 pragmatic trials to develop and improve pain management approaches for veterans, military personnel, and their families. The PMC has established a coordinating center that provides national leadership and technical expertise for all aspects of research conducted within healthcare systems.
The new funding opportunity leverages the experience, expertise, and leadership of the PMC Coordinating Center to support the conduct of large-scale pragmatic clinical trials and implementation science demonstration projects to study nonopioid approaches to the management of pain and other comorbid conditions, including complementary and integrative approaches used alone and in combination with standard care. Supported projects will be conducted within healthcare systems serving veterans, military personnel, and their families.
The application receipt date is November 7, 2024. Applications are expected to:
- Support the design and execution of additional high-impact demonstration projects that will conduct pragmatic clinical trials focusing on effectiveness research, implementation research, or hybrid effectiveness-implementation research on nonopioid approaches for the management of pain and comorbid conditions with patients in healthcare delivery systems that provide care to veterans, military personnel, and their families.
- Make available data, tools, best practices, and resources that will facilitate a research partnership with healthcare delivery systems that provide care to veterans, military personnel, and/or their families.
The NIH Institutes participating in this funding opportunity include NCCIH, the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).