Patient Safety in Ambulatory Care Setting ... The health care delivery system has evolved from a largely inpatient, hospital oriented system to one increasingly ...

Closing the Gap: Applying Injury Prevention Science to Healthcare Safety ... The Wisconsin Injury Research Center (WIRC) at the Medical College of Wisconsin ...

The Center for Improving Patient Safety ... The long-term objective of this proposal is to create a Center for Improving Patient Safety located in Nashville, ...

Unit Level Nurse Workload Impacts on Patient Safety ... The aims of this proposed two-year descriptive correlational study build on the established integrity ...

Accountability and Health Safety: A Statewide Approach ... This proposed research demonstration incorporates a variety of methodologies and expertise to address ...

Evaluate the effects of Massachusetts Reporting System ... (A) Problem Statement: The incidence of medical errors calls for improvement of patient safety and ...

Addressing Preventable Medication Use Variance in Mississippi ... The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) proposes to establish a large-scale demonstration ...

Quality Care and Error Reduction in Rural Hospitals ... The executive summary of the National Health Care Quality report states that the quality of healthcare ...

Surveillance, Analysis, and Interventions to Improve Patient Safety ... BJC HealthCare (BJC) and Washington University School of Medicine (WUSM) propose to study: ...

Making Sure: An Ethnographic Study of Health Professionals ... There is wide agreement that improving patient safety and avoiding medical error are critically ...

Informatics tools to reduce Warfarin errors ... Warfarin is currently prescribed to over 2 million Americans. It is perhaps the most hazardous drug commonly ...

The American Academy of Family Physicians DCERPS-PC ... The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) will establish a National Developmental Center for ...

Improved patient safety through web-based education ... The National Patient Safety Foundation proposes to research and develop a standard method of patient ...

Outcomes of ICU working conditions ... Recent efforts to reduce costs and streamline the delivery of healthcare have led to significant changes in the acute ...

RCT to Reduce Prescribing Errors in Hypertension ... Suboptimal choice of medications for primary care is a significant source of prescribing errors that can ...

Reporting System to Improve Patient Safety in Surgery ... Safety-related adverse events after major surgical operations are a major contributor to the incidence ...

Malpractice Insurers' Medical Error Prevention Study ... Goals. The 5 study goals are: 1) to harness the potential of malpractice insurance programs to operate ...

Organizations, Work Environment, and Quality of Care ... Health care quality has recently received significant attention, primarily due to the issue of medical ...

Using prospective MDS data to enhance resident safety ... The goal of the proposed research is to determine whether preventable adverse outcomes for the frail ...

Do organizational factors influence both patient and worker safety? ... Several recent reports have highlighted growing concerns about the quality of patient ...