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"By combining health services research and human factors engineering with patient-family partnership, I believe we can meaningfully impact healthcare no matter where a child calls home." ~ Carolyn Foster, MD, MS
Congratulations to CYSHCNet researcher Dr. Carolyn Foster and her team for receiving a $2 million award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to fund the"The SafeCare@Home4Kids Learning Lab: Designing Safer Healthcare at Home for Children."
Their research will bring together experts in patient safety, human factors engineering, nursing, pediatrics, home healthcare, informatics, and lived family experience to design innovative, effective, and equitable approaches to prevent medication errors or device-related adverse events experienced by diverse children at home. They aim to better understand how family caregivers and home nurses currently identify, communicate, and prevent healthcare safety errors and adverse events at home. Additionally, they will use input from families, home nurses, prescribing providers, and safety experts to co-design, implement, and evaluate a digital safety toolkit that addresses these healthcare safety events to improve patient safety at home.
SafeCare@Home4Kids represents a major shift in safety research toward focusing on the home as a fundamental healthcare practice setting for children and serving populations who may not otherwise be empowered or supported to address the safety of their children’s healthcare.
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