Health Services Research on Practice Improvement Utilizing Community Treatment Programs within the National Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network (CTN) (R03)

-This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) solicits Small Research Grant (R03) applications for health services research in conjunction with NIDA s Clinical Trials Network (CTN). The CTN is a research partnership between more than 150 community treatment programs (CTPs) and drug abuse researchers in multiple sites across the country. With its extensive network of providers serving diverse populations of drug users, the CTN provides an infrastructure for the investigation of (a) systems-level factors that facilitate practice improvement in community treatment programs, and (b) new research tools to facilitate higher quality health services research on practice improvement in drug abuse treatment. -This FOA will use the NIH Small Research Grant (R03) award mechanism and runs in parallel with an FOA of identical scientific scope, PA-06-495, that solicits applications under the R01, and PA-06-496, that solicits applications under the R21. -The R03 grant mechanism supports different types of projects including pilot and feasibility studies; secondary analysis of existing data; small, self-contained research projects; development of research methodology; and development of new research technology.