Health Services
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In 2010, we made it a goal to use the new electronic resources for data collection, namely the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW), to expand research opportunities in the area of health services research. We have had success in this area, namely the mentored research projects conducted by 2010 Institute for Healthcare Studies Fellow Emilie Powell, MD, MBA. Emilie is a former NU EM resident whose work using EDW data is focusing on operations research and improving sepsis care in the Emergency Department. She is mentored by faculty member Paula Tanabe, PhD.
Dr. Tanabe is currently supported by a K23 award from NINR, “A Decision Support Tool for Adult Sickle Cell Emergency Department Patients.” With additional funding from the Mayday Fund, She has also just completed the project “NP CAPS Study: Nurse Practitioner Certification and Practice Setting Study”, funded by the National Council of the State Boards of Nursing”. In the past year she has completed submissions to AHRQ (R18) “Improving Emergency Department Management of Adults with Sickle Cell Disease,” NHLBI (R21) “Neurocognition and Healthcare Utilization in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease,” and a seed grant to the Alliance for Research in Chicagoland Communities, “A Needs Assessment of Sickle Cell Disease Patients in Illinois: The Identification of Unmet Needs and Geospatial-mapping to Availability of Corresponding Services.”
Two more residents will also be entering fellowships in health services research this year. Danielle McCarthy, MD is the 2011 Institute for Healthcare Studies Fellow and Patrick Lank, MD is doing a fellowship in epidemiology and biostatistics.
We have also made it a priority to use large pre-existing datasets to answer important questions about quality of care and outcomes in time dependent emergency conditions. Specifically we have used the publicly available Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National Inpatient Sample to investigate time to re-perfusion and inpatient mortality in acute myocardial infarction (Khare et al), the relationship between ED volume of sepsis cases and inpatient mortality (Powell et. al) and the relationship between time to antibiotics in pneumonia and inpatient mortality (Quattromani et al and Research College). These efforts have also been possible through ongoing collaboration with persons in the Institute for Healthcare Studies at NU especially Joe Feinglass PhD.
