Developing a patient-centered model of the risk of perioperative complications in spine surgery ... This project will develop an innovative relative risk model ...

Management of uterine fibroids ... Review question(s): Key Question 1. What is the comparative effectiveness (benefits and harms) of treatments for uterine ...

Association between hospital performances on patient safety and 30-day mortality and readmission for Medicare fee-for-service patients with acute myocardial ...

Increasing the uptake of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) hypertension screening guidelines in primary care ... Approximately one in five patients ...

National trends in the rates of bladder catheterization and physician-diagnosed catheter-associated urinary tract infections among hospitalized patients ...

Using a novel geospatial statistical model to evaluate specific social and ecological determinants of health in children with antibiotic-resistant staphylococcal ...

Context is critical: understanding when and why electronic health record (EHR)-related safety hazards happen ... The federal government has successfully stimulated ...

Patient-centered approach to exploring protein-energy wasting in dialysis ... Laura D. Byham-Gray, PhD, RD, is a professor (tenured) of Nutritional Sciences ...

Brain Health Patient Safety Learning Laboratory ... We are proposing to establish the Brain Health Patient Safety Learning Laboratory ("Brain Safety Lab") at ...

The impact of resource constraints on provider behavior and health outcomes in childbirth ... Understanding how resource availability influences provider behavior ...

Racial/ethnic disparities in health insurance coverage stability: implications for chronic disease management and use of preventive services ... Unstable health ...

Personalized engagement tool for pediatric bone marrow transplantation (BMT) patients and caregivers ... Bone marrow transplantation (BMT), commonly referred ...

Patient-Centered Virtual Multimedia Interactive Informed Consent (VIC) ... The informed consent process protects patients and ensures ethical conduct of research. ...

An integrated closed-loop feedback system for pediatric cardiometabolic disease ... Cardiometabolic disease-a clustering of medical conditions and risk factors ...

The effects of competition on health insurance generosity in Medicare Advantage ... This project tests how changes in health insurance market competition affect ...

Impact of pre-dialysis quality of care and dialysis coinsurance on disenrollment of patients with incident end-stage renal disease from Medicare advantage ...

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

The impact of morphine equivalent dose thresholds on prescribing and outcomes ... Opioid analgesics are powerful painkillers that effectively treat pain. However, ...

Disseminating a web-enabled safety risk assessment (SRA) toolkit for designing safer healthcare facilities ... The healthcare system, which includes the built ...

Southwest Health Extension Partnership to Enhance Research Dissemination (SHEPERD) ... Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes one in three deaths reported each ...