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Center for Patient Safety Science

Research

  • Federally funded and hospital-supported
  • Leveraging health IT to quantify and prevent medical errors
  • Using rigorous research methods and systems-based approaches
  • We develop and test innovative, replicable, scalable solutions

Certain types of errors frequently occur in computerized provider order entry (CPOE) systems.

Grants

CPSS conducts federally funded research to address the lack of rigorously tested interventions and standardized methods for measuring patient safety hazards.
The Retract-and-Reorder automated tool will capture 5 types of medication safety errors.

Our Impact

Our study findings have informed national recommendations and regulations, with direct applications to health policy and patient care.
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Publications

Our publications in peer-reviewed journals elucidate key issues and identify innovations.
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