Advancing patient safety implementation through pharmacy-based opioid medication use research ... Mortality related to the epidemic of prescription drug misuse ...

Computer-based simulation pediatric disaster triage training for emergency medical service providers ... Children are not small adults. Nowhere is this understanding ...

Develop patient-centered outcomes scholars for comparative effectiveness research ... The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act created the Patient- ...

Empiric testing and enhancement of web-based abstract screening tool (Abstrackr) ... In this year-long project, we aim to empirically assess the performance ...

Engagement in weight management for adolescents from low-socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds ... Adolescent obesity is a significant public health concern, ...

Better decisions, better care: Advancing decision support to improve health care ... The Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) dedicates its efforts to ...

Workshop on systematic reviews of diagnostic tests ... The importance of systematic reviews of diagnostic and screening tests has grown significantly in recent ...

Home health agency quality: profit orientation, competition and rehospitalization ... Home health agencies (HHA) are an increasingly important provider of postacute ...

Care choices and costs for low back pain ... The widespread prevalence of low back pain (LBP) was associated with health care expenditures of $26.5 billion in ...

Optimizing medication history value in clinical encounters with elderly patients ... E-prescribing with medication history at the point of prescribing may ...

Tailored DVD to improve medication management for low literate elderly patients ... Medication decisions are the most common type of decision that physicians ...

Hospice Enrollment and LTC Policy (HELP) ... While nearly 25 percent of Americans who die each year spend the final days or months of life in a nursing home ( ...

Neglected by the evidence: the intersection of medical complexity and dementia ... The applicant is a research associate at the Alzheimer's Disease and Memory ...

Improving pediatric resuscitation: a simulation program for the community emergency department (ED) ... This study proposes to utilize high-fidelity in situ ...

National Research Service Award (NRSA) postdoctoral comparative effectiveness development training award ... The Brown University's Center for Gerontology and ...

National Research Service Award ... Over the past 32 years, Brown University's AHRQ-supported Institutional T32 Training Program has developed over 60 interdisciplinary ...