AHRQ-Funded Projects
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Ambulatory Clinic Exam Room Design With Respect to Computing Devices to Enhance Patient Centeredness
This project studied the impact of changing the computing layout in a clinical exam room and evaluated its impact on workflow and patient centeredness.
Understanding Complex Clinical Decision Tasks for Better Health Information Technology System Design
This study examined clinical decision task complexity to guide the design of innovative clinical decision support to for high-level reasoning in complex decision tasks.
Quantifying Electronic Medical Record Usability to Improve Clinical Workflow
This project studied electronic health record use, workflow, physician-patient communication, cognitive load, and user satisfaction and found multiple factors that influence physicians' work practices and perceived workload.
Knowledge Engineering for Decision Support in Osteoporosis
This project developed a Veterans Affairs-optimized fracture absolute risk assessment rule for identifying males at highest risk of osteoporotic fracture.
Using Electronic Data to Improve Care of Patients With Known or Suspected Cancer
This project used health information technology to identify patients for whom a diagnosis of prostate, lung, or colon cancer had been delayed.
Veterans Administration (VA) Integrated Medication Manager
This project developed a new application called the Integrated Medication Manager (IMM), which presents to clinicians an integrated representation of a patient’s status and care process over time.
Using Electronic Records to Detect and Learn from Ambulatory Diagnostic Errors
The findings of this study demonstrated that electronic health record-based trigger methods can enable more meaningful measurement and surveillance of diagnostic errors in primary care.
Crossing the Quality Assessment Chasm: Aligning Measured and True Quality of Care
This study supported the notion that the current focus on quality of care for diabetics favors providers that start with panels where a majority of patients already have good control.
Implementing and Improving the Integration of Decision Support into Outpatient Clinical Workflow
This project analyzed a clinical decision support tool for colorectal cancer screening that was integrated into an ambulatory clinical workflow.