| Pediatric Patient Safety
Pediatric patient safety has been an important focus of research and applied improvement projects conducted by Drs. Donna Woods and Jane Holl.
Their work has: - Advanced the understanding of the epidemiology of patient safety risk related to pediatrics;
- Developed theory to facilitate effective intervention; and
- Translated methods from other high reliability, life critical industries for risk assessment and safety improvement in medical care.
Results from the research conducted on pediatric patient safety at Northwestern University, Institute for Healthcare Studies include: - A validated set of “Child Specific Risk Factors” shown to actively contribute to patient safety risk that can be used to guide effective pediatric customization of patient safety interventions and safe pediatric medical care design.
- The Pediatric Patient Safety Taxonomy is being used to apply a standard classification to improve the knowledge that can be gleaned from pediatric safety event reports.
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Pediatric Patient Safety Consortium
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Research Focus Areas
Clinician to Clinician Communication – Clinician to clinician communication is a primary context for patient safety risk for pediatric patients. Several projects have explored this important safety context in order to develop and implement effective interventions addressing these risks. - Strategies for Improving Clinician Communication
- Improving Clinician Communication
- Risk Assessment of Pediatric Emergency Transfers
- Improving the Patient Safety and Reliability of Pediatric Inter-Hospital Transport in the Chicago Metropolitan Area
Risk Assessment – - Leveraging Assessments of Risk for Pediatric Patient Safety
- Pediatric Emergency Transfers
[back to top] PPSC MEMBERS Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital
Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital
PI: Denise Angst, DNSc, Director of Pediatric Research Children’s Memorial Hospital
PI: Edward Ogata, MD MBA, Chief Medical Officer John H. Stroger-Cook County Hospital
PI: David Soglin, MD, Chairman, Department Pediatrics
Susan Echiverri, MD, Chair, Division of Genetics and Metabolism Mount Sinai Children’s Hospital
PI: Dennis Vickers, MD, Chairman, Department of Pediatrics Loyola University, Ronald McDonald Children’s Hospital
PI: Kathleen Webster, MD, Director, Division of Pediatric Critical Care
PI: Jenny Wang, MD, Project Coordinator
PPSC MISSION STATEMENT
The Consortium fosters research and educational collaboration between healthcare institutions to improve patient safety for children. PPSC GOALS - To study and identify patient safety risks in the systems, processes, and practices of providing medical care to children.
- To design patient safety improvement interventions to address the specific risks for pediatric patients and institutions that provide medical care to children.
- To disseminate interventions, tools, and processes, adapted for use by clinicians and institutions providing medical care to children.
[back to top] Dr. Woods and Holl were awarded the 2006 Institute of Medicine – Chicago, Chicago Patient Safety Forum (http://www.chicagopatientsafety.org/), Otho S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute - Recognition in Patient Safety Award for their work in pediatric patient safety.
[back to top] - Woods DM, Holl JL, Angst D, Echiverri S, Johnson D, Soglin D, Srinivasan G, Barnathan J, Amsden L, Weiss K. Clinician Recommended Solutions: Improving Clinician to Clinician Communication in Hospital-based Pediatric Care. (click article title to go to the link) AHRQ Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches. 2008 (In Press). http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/advances2/vol3/Advances-Woods_78.pdf
- Woods DM, Holl JL, Angst D, Echiverri S, Johnson D, Soglin D, Srinivasan G, Barnathan J, Amsden L, Weiss K. Gaps in Pediatric Clinician Communication and Opportunities for Improvement. (click article title to go to the link) Journal of Healthcare Quality – Pediatric Special Issue. 2008 Sep-Oct;30(5):43-54 http://www.advocatehealth.com/system/jobsedu/edu/research/pedsresearch/gapsin.pdf
- Woods DM, Holl JL, Young J, Wears R, Schwalenstocker E, Reynolds S, Barnathan J, Amsden L. Leveraging Existing Assessments of Risk Now (LEARN) Safety Analysis: A Method for Improving Pediatric Patient Safety. (click article title to go to the link) AHRQ Advances in Patient Safety: New Directions and Alternative Approaches. 2008 (In Press). http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/advances2/vol1/Advances-woods_79.pdf
- Franke H, Woods DM, Holl JL. High Alert Medications in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Critical Care Medicine. 2008 (In Press).
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Our Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) funded pediatric patient safety projects have free, publicly available toolkits that can be adapted to most health care settings. The toolkits include helpful items to conduct similar research at your institution. For each project we have created toolkits containing checklists, templates, tips to improve processes, selected references and other resources. [back to top]
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