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 research study examined the relationships between clinician use of order sets, patient-level order variation, and patient outcomes and found that order set usage reduced order variation and improved patient outcomes in patients with sepsis.Principal Investigator: Zhang, JiajieProject Dates: September 01, 2019 to August 31, 2022
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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 assessed the etiology of medication ordering errors, finding that errors stemmed from multi-level risk factors and showing the utility of a void alert tool to prospectively capture the broad range of errors that may occur in practice that may be missed by using traditional retrospective error reporting methods.Principal Investigator: Abraham, JoannaProject Dates: August 01, 2017 to July 31, 2020
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Description: The project will develop and test a large set of alerts at two large health systems to demonstrate that alerts can help prevent wrong-drug and wrong-patient errors and improve the completeness of the problem list.Principal Investigator: Lambert, BruceProject Dates: September 30, 2016 to September 29, 2022
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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: This project convened stakeholder panels to inform the development of an indications-enabled computerized prescriber order entry system.Principal Investigator: Schiff, Gordon DavidProject Dates: September 30, 2014 to March 31, 2018
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Description: The purpose of this study was to refine and further develop the Leapfrog Computerized Provider Order Entry Evaluation Tool and assess hospital performance on the tool over time.Principal Investigator: Bates, DavidProject Dates: September 01, 2014 to September 29, 2019
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Description: This Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics-funded project was focused on the improvement of patient safety through the development and refinement of tools for safer medication use.Principal Investigator: Lambert, BruceProject Dates: September 01, 2011 to August 31, 2017
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Description: This project developed, implemented, and evaluated the impact of a computerized tool to automatically identify tests with pending results at hospital discharge, and assist in communicating those to followup providers.Principal Investigator: Were, MartinProject Dates: September 30, 2009 to July 31, 2014
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Description: This project examined the role of health information technology on inpatient health care service demand.Principal Investigator: Barrette, EricProject Dates: September 01, 2009 to April 30, 2011