AHRQ Funded Projects
Search the entire portfolio of AHRQ-funded digital healthcare research projects. Projects can be identified by technology studied, medical condition, population, status of the project, principal investigator, organization, funding mechanism and location.
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Description: This study will evaluate the effectiveness of patient photographs displayed in electronic health record systems for preventing wrong-patient errors.Principal Investigator: Adelman, Jason StuartProject Dates: September 30, 2017 to July 31, 2023
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Description: This research showed that automated measurement of electronic order errors can be readily integrated into electronic health records to study the epidemiology of order errors and to test the effectiveness of proposed system improvements on order error outcomes.Principal Investigator: Adelman, Jason StuartProject Dates: September 01, 2016 to June 30, 2022
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Description: This project designed and conducted a usability evaluation of dashboards that provide feedback to home care nurses to improve the care of patients with chronic heart failure, and found that the dashboard prototype had high usability and was evaluated positively by users.Principal Investigator: Dowding, DawnProject Dates: September 30, 2015 to March 31, 2017
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Description: This project compared the risk of orders placed on the wrong electronic patient record when providers were limited to having one patient record open at a time versus up to four and found no difference in errors between the two.Principal Investigator: Adelman, Jason StuartProject Dates: September 30, 2014 to September 29, 2018
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Description: The purpose of this project was to leverage existing health information exchange data to improve quality measurement of two measures for potentially preventable emergency department visits.Principal Investigator: Shapiro, Jason S.Project Dates: May 01, 2012 to February 28, 2018
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Description: This study assessed the effects of supportive electronic health record implementation, clinical decision support systems, and pay-for-quality programs on the performance of cardiovascular health clinical quality measures.Principal Investigator: Parsons, AmandaProject Dates: September 30, 2009 to July 31, 2013
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Description: This project deployed new functionality that allowed clinicians to view ‘real time’ measures of the delivery of clinical preventive services and added patient specific alerts and ‘one click’ options to act on missed opportunities for followup care.Principal Investigator: Wu, WinfredProject Dates: September 30, 2007 to September 29, 2010
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Description: This project sought to identify existing, and create new, clinical quality of care metrics able to be reliably retrieved from electronic systems, such as electronic health records and health information exchanges.Principal Investigator: Kaushal, RainuProject Dates: September 30, 2007 to March 31, 2011
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Description: The project developed and pilot-tested a Web-based implementation of a Team Resource Management (TRM) intervention aimed at improving medication safety in primary care.Principal Investigator: Singh, GurdevProject Dates: September 07, 2007 to November 30, 2010