Acute Care

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 research explores using natural language processing and generative AI to capture and structure social determinants of health from patient narratives, aiming to improve data completeness and quality, enhance clinical decision support, and reduce the manual burden on clinical staff in routine care.

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 research will develop, evaluate, and test the efficacy of Empower NICU – A Bridge to Resources for Adjusting and Coping with Emotions (EmBRACE), a mobile health application designed to screen and monitor psychological symptoms in parents of infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit, identify those at risk, and connect parents with services, information, support, and resources.

This research will develop, implement, refine, and evaluate an app to support clinical decisions for ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction care in rural areas by emergency medical services providers, reducing the time between first medical contact and reperfusion therapy to reduce morbidity and mortality, and improve health outcomes.

This research will develop a SMART on FHIR version of an existing pneumonia clinical decision support tool and evaluate it in a new setting with a different electronic health record.

This research is developing and testing VR-Choice, an immersive virtual reality experience designed to increase patient willingness to engage in shared decision-making for medications for opioid use disorder after being treated for an opioid-related overdose in the emergency department.