Projects
The Texas Disclosure and Compensation Study: Best Practices for Improving Safety
2010-2013
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Total award $1 million
PI: Eric Thomas
Project Description
This project seeks to determine how to make disclosure a process that will not only serve individual patients/families, but also take advantage of the patient’s experience to help hospitals learn from errors and improve safety.
Progress and Outcomes
A qualitative pilot project is underway to identify the issues and concerns surrounding disclosure of adverse events among 30 patients, families, doctors, nurses and hospital administrators who have had direct experience with a disclosure of a medical error.
Information from this pilot project will guide a one-day conference of a convened panel of experts, scheduled for the fall 2011, to develop best practice models which can be tested in hospitals.
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
Safety Culture
