One of AHRQ*’s Patient Safety Learning Labs (4 years starting 9/30/2019)
- Each year adverse drug events lead to 700 000 emergency department visits and 100 000 hospitalizations
- Nearly half a billion primary care visits are innovation opportunities to address known risk factors for ADEs, such as polypharmacy
- PROMIS Lab focuses on medication safety among older adults
Project Research Team
Engineering
- Xiao (UTA): healthcare human factors
- Gurses (JHU): participatory ergonomics & human-centered design
- Zhou (UTA): simulation & modeling
Primary care, pharmacy and health services research
- Young (JPS): primary care delivery research (physician)
- Fulda (UNT): practice-based research
- Daniel: gerontology (geriatric nurse practitioner)
- White (UNT): opioid deprescribing (pharmacist)
- Pitts & Arbaje (JHU): geriatrics (physicians)
- Wang (UTA): Biostatistician; Kim (UTA): Simulation
Business
- Chen (UTA): behavioral economics
- Sutcliffe (JHU): organizational behavior
Design
- Ellis: healthcare design (architect at HKS)
- Cook (UTA): visual communication
Advisors
- Townsend: patient and family engagement (Batz Patient Safety Foundation)
- Chui, PharmD, PhD: ambulatory medication safety (Univ Wisconsin)
- Cardarelli, MD: primary care delivery (Univ Kentucky)
- Reeve, BPharm, PhD: deprescribing (Univ of South Australia)