Pfizer Medical Education Group Request for Proposals (RFP): Improve Outcomes and Optimize Healthcare Utilization for Patients with Chronic Pain in a Primary Care Setting

The Pfizer Medical Education Group or MEG is the unit within Pfizer that provides independent grants to facilitate patient care improvements by supporting initiatives aimed at exploring approaches to closing gaps in clinical practice. The term “Independent ” means that the initiatives that the grants help to support are the full responsibility of the receiving organization. Pfizer has no influence over any aspect of the project, and only asks for reports about the results and impact of the projects in order to share them publicly. A gap in clinical practice is considered to be the difference between what is currently happening and what should be happening to meet the highest optimal standard of care. Gaps may relate to: the ability or competencies of the healthcare professionals themselves, the abilities of the systems in which they work to promote or allow proper treatment and other factors related to the external environment or patient population. When an RFP is issued, it is posted on the Pfizer Medical Education Group website (www.pfizer.com/independentsupport) as well as those of other relevant organizations and is sent via e-mail to internal lists of all registered organizations and users in the grants system