Projects
University of Texas System Patient Safety Activities
With funding from the UT System Malpractice plan, the Committee provides awards to UT faculty to conduct research, educational initiatives, and clinical collaboratives to improve healthcare quality and safety. In addition, a subcommittee selects RMF Strategies to help the UT System implement its policy on disclosure of unanticipated events to patients and family members.
Grant Awardees:
2011
Education:
- Ross (UTHSCSA): GeriSAFE Student Learners Assessing Falls Among Elders: An Interprofessional Multilevel Approach
- Osier (UTSW): Pediatric Resident Patient Handoffs: Improving Patient Care with a Standardized Handoff
Clinical Collaborative:
- Ost (MDACC): A Multicenter Bronchoscopy Registry and Quality Improvement Collaborative for Comparative Effectiveness and Safety Research
Research:
- Rhee (UTSW): Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer (HAPU): Evaluation and Quality Improvement of HAPU Incidence at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Refuerzo (UTHSCH): Enhancing Adherence to Evidence Based Perinatal Guidelines: A Multi-center Quality Improvement Project
- Sreeramoju (UTSW): Trial of Positive Deviance for Surgical Inpatients to Reduce Hospital Infections
2010
Education:
- Higgins (UTHSCH): ε•piph•a•nεε
- Patterson (UTHSCSA): Educating for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety: Faculty, Graduates, and Undergraduates as Three Tiers to Success
- Scott (UTSMCDAL): Improving Patient Safety and Healthcare Delivery Effectiveness by Ensuring Competency for Laparoscopic Surgery: FLS Training and Certification for UT Surgeons and OR Personnel
Clinical Collaborative:
- Tsai (UTHSCH): Operative Checklists: Does One Size Fit All?
Research:
- Franklin (UTHSCH): Conformity, Compliance, and Error Reporting in the Emergency Department
2009
Education:
- Patterson (UTHSCSA): An Innovative Elective: Medicine Reconciliation in a Community Based HIV/AIDS clinic
- Stevens (UTHSCSA): Interprofessional Clinical Education to Enhance Teamwork and Patient Safety
- Quinn (MDACC): Linking Outcomes of Care to the ACGME/ABMS Competencies: a Matrix Solution
- Nolan (UTHSCSA) Disclosing Unintended Outcomes/Medical Errors
Clinical Collaborative:
- Patterson (UTHSCSA): Controlling Multidrug Resistant Pathogens in the UT System
Research:
- Amarassingham (UTSW): Electronic Risk Scoring System for Reducing Heart Failure Readmissions
- Kao (UTHSCH): Checklists, Patient Safety, and Surgical Care
- Bernstam (UTHSCH): Preventing Inpatient Errors by Improving Nurse-Doctor Communication by Telephone
Committee Members:
Melodie Krane
Senior Attorney & Deputy Plan Administrator
The University of Texas System
Bruce Meyer MD
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
UT Southwestern Medical School
Jan Patterson MD
Professor of Medicine
UT Health Science Center San Antonio
Eric J Thomas MD MPH
Professor of Medicine
UT Houston Medical School
Projects
- The Texas Disclosure and Compensation Study: Best Practices for Improving Safety
- National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare
- Gulf Coast Regional Extension Center
- Improving the Safety and Quality of Pediatric Health Care
- Promoting Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Members of Internet Health Communities
- Optimizing Nutrition in Very Low Birth Weight Patients with Prolonged Transition to Full Enteral Feedings
- Clinical Decision Support in Community Hospitals: Barriers and Facilitators
- University of Texas System Patient Safety Activities
- AHRQ Training Program in Patient Safety and Quality: Using Health Information Technology to Improve Quality and Safety
- Using Electronic Data to Improve Care of Patients with Known or Suspected Cancer
- Using Electronic Records to Detect and Learn from Ambulatory Diagnostic Errors
- Crossing an Invisible Quality Chasm: From NICU To Ambulatory Care
- Prevention of Surgical Site Infections
- Developing a Composite Indicator to Measure the Quality of Neonatal Intensive Care
- Reducing Missed and Delayed Diagnoses in Cancer: Lessons from Aviation
- The Pebble Project
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