Detecting Med Errors in Rural Hospitals Using Technology

描述（由申请人提供）：密西西比大学医学中心（UMMC）、密西西比信息和质量医疗（IQH）以及密西西比州的八家小型农村医院提议实施一项利用健康信息技术（HIT）提高患者安全和医疗质量的计划。医学博士、公共卫生硕士、UMMC患者安全中心主任C. Andrew Brown将担任该项目的首席研究员。布朗博士的合作研究人员代表了一个跨学科的医学博士、药学博士和医学博士团队。流行病学家、护士、生物统计学家、教育工作者和信息技术专家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), Mississippi's Information and Quality Healthcare (IQH), and eight small rural hospitals throughout Mississippi propose to implement a program using health information technology (HIT) to improve patient safety and quality of health care. C. Andrew Brown, M.D., M.P.H., director of UMMC's Patient Safety Center, will serve as the program's principal investigator. Dr. Brown's co-investigators represent an interdisciplinary team of M.D.s, Pharm.D.s, epidemiologists, nurses, biostatisticians, educators, and information technologists. Of the eight rural hospitals, five are situated in the Mississippi Delta, and three are located in east central Mississippi. All participating hospitals have less than 100 beds. The goals of the proposed program are to: (1) introduce voluntary, anonymous, electronic medical error and ADE reporting in eight small, rural hospitals (less than 100 beds) in Mississippi; (2) identify barriers to implementation of HIT, including educational, cultural, technological, and intangible issues, such as reticence and resistance; (3) ascertain the epidemiology and root cause of medical errors and ADEs in small, rural hospitals; (4) formulate educational and continuous quality improvement (CQI) strategies that are specific to small, rural hospitals in partnership with the participating hospitals; (5) develop, demonstrate, and evaluate strategies in partnership with the participating institutions for reducing errors and, ultimately, improving patient safety throughout Mississippi, and, by extension, in other rural areas, based on the data we gather; and (6) disseminate the results of our research and the Ql strategies we develop in partnership with our participating institutions throughout the health care industry.