The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite applications for the creation and utilization of Patient Safety Learning Laboratories (PSLL).

These learning laboratories are places and networks where transdisciplinary teams identify closely related threats to diagnostic

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or treatment efforts associated with a high burden of harm and cost.

Following a systems engineering methodology, the learning laboratories stretch professional boundaries, envision innovative designs, and take advantage of brainstorming and rapid prototyping techniques that other leading industries employ.

Promising prototypes undergo further develop-test-revise iterations, and subsequent integration as a working system.

After further improvements are made to the integrated working system, its efficacy is evaluated in a realistic simulated or clinical setting.