Adverse Events
IMProving Outcomes Related to Patients Through Advanced Nursing Technology (IMPORTANT)
This research will evaluate a novel, technology-enabled intervention that will determine the impact of bedside shift reporting and hourly rounding on nurse-sensitive patient outcomes.
Customizing Value-Based Methods to Prioritize Implementation of Pharmacogenomic Clinical Decision Support for Learning Health Systems
This research will estimate the cost-effectiveness of pharmacogenomics clinical decision support alerts and create a tool that provides estimates of the value of developing and implementing them.
Understanding CancelRX: Impact on Clinical Workflows, Medication Safety Risks, and Patient Outcomes
This research will evaluate the safety, usability, and impact of an e-prescribing standard on adverse drug events related to erroneously dispensed medications.
Enabling Shared Decision Making to Reduce Harm from Drug Interactions: An End-to-End Demonstration
This research will develop and disseminate sharable, interoperable drug-drug interaction decision-making tools that enable patient-centered shared decision making.
CancelRx: A Health IT Tool to Decrease Medication Discrepancies in the Outpatient Setting
This project will examine the impact of implementing the e-Prescribing standard CancelRx on outpatient medication discrepancies and on clinic and pharmacy workflows.
Meaningful Drug Interaction Alerts
This project proposes a novel proactive system to reduce alert burden and thereby increase attention to situations in which patient safety is at risk.
Improving Allergy Documentation and Clinical Decision Support in the Electronic Health Record
This project will redesign approaches for collecting and using allergy information with the goal of improving healthcare quality and safety, including completeness and accuracy of allergy data.
The Effect of Health Information Technology on Healthcare Provider Communication
This research studied how communication technologies facilitate or hinder communication between nurses and physicians with the ultimate goal of supporting effective communication.
Novel IT To Create Patient-Integrated Quality Improvement
This research created, piloted, and evaluated FIQS, the Family Input to Quality and Safety tool, that allows pediatric patients and their caregivers to provide safety reports regarding their inpatient care.
Preventing Perioperative Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events Through the Use of Clinical Decision Support
This project will develop a clinical decision support tool for the perioperative setting.