Sickle Cell Anemia
Improving Pain Management through Surveillance and Quality Improvement - The Illinois Emergency Department Pain Collaborative (IED-PMC); Sickle Cell Disease-Acute Pain Episodes (SCD-APE)
PI: Paula Tanabe, PhD, RN
This three year multi-site project funded by the Mayday Fund aims to improve Emergency Department care for persons with sickle cell disease and associated pain episodes. In addition to Northwestern, OSF St. Francis in Peoria and the University of Chicago are partners. Each site will form a collaborative team consisting of an ED nurse, physician and either an internist or hematologist. The team will be responsible for helping design interventions aimed at improving pain management specific to their ED. Northwestern team members include Nadya Valdovinos, D. Mark Courtney, and Anaa Zakarija. Residents involved with the project include Randy Myers, Heather Costello, and Matt Lazio. Please share any thoughts you have with any of the team members or with Paula Tanabe. We look forward to the opportunity to not only improve the ED experience for these patients, but also to help reduce the frustration experienced by many clinicians often associated with Emergency Department management of person with sickle cell anemia. Enrollment begins October 1, 2007.
Funding Agency: The Mayday Foundation
Funding Amount: $302,035
Funding Duration: 06/01/07-05/31/10
