Patient Safety

This research aims to improve the early detection of venous thromboembolism in primary and urgent care by using mixed methods (stakeholder interviews and surveys, electronic health records, and machine learning) to better understand missed and delayed diagnoses, identify risk factors, and develop tools to enhance patient safety.

This research tests the effectiveness of MedSMA℞T Mobile, a mobile adaptation of the MedSMA℞T Families game-based tool, in delivering preventive education that enhances opioid safety knowledge and communication among adolescents, parents, and healthcare providers in emergency departments, with the goal of reducing opioid misuse and improving family medication safety practices.

The study will develop and implement a validated machine learning model to optimize voiding cystourethrogram timing and use for diagnosing vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in children, aiming to reduce the significant health and economic impacts of VUR and recurrent febrile urinary tract infections (fUTIs) by standardizing practices, minimizing unnecessary procedures, and ensuring timely diagnosis for those at highest risk, ultimately seeking to prevent renal injury from fUTIs.

The study will develop, validate, implement, and assess the usability of a machine learning based clinical decision support tool designed to reduce laboratory testing overutilization in pediatric intensive care unit patients.

This research uses large language models and machine learning to retrospectively analyze electronic health records of patients with suspected sepsis and identify patterns in treatment outcomes, with the goal of shaping future clinical guidelines that help doctors select the most effective antibiotics for each patient, reduce unnecessary use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, lower the risks of drug resistance, and ultimately improve patient outcomes.

This study will develop a prototype guide for the safe and effective integration of ambient digital scribes into primary care, providing insights into how this artificial intelligence-driven technology transforms workflows while addressing critical safety, equity, and burnout concerns in diverse healthcare settings.

The study will develop and test a vendor-compatible clinical decision support system to support intensive care unit nurses and physical therapists at the point of care in the timely identification of patients suitable for activity interventions and the creation of personalized activity plans.

This conference convenes interdisciplinary experts from the United States and abroad to define priorities and goals for researching technology use in Long-Term Post-Acute Care (LTPAC), and to identify factors that support or hinder its adoption in LTPAC settings, aiming to promote safer, higher quality, more accessible, and equitable LTPAC globally.

This research will use deep learning models to move a reactive full capacity protocol (FCP) for emergency department (ED) overcrowding interventions into a proactive FCP by predicting patient flow measures so that interventions may be activated to avoid ED overcrowding.

This research will implement, evaluate, and disseminate DDInteract, a shared decision making clinical decision support tool that aims to reduce harm from oral anticoagulant drug-drug interactions.