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Wednesday, July 17, 2002
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET
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Marlene R. Miller
M.D., M.Sc.
Topic: Lessons from AHRQ's Pediatric Patient Safety Research
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Rainu Kaushal
M.D., M.P.H.
Topic: Targeted Strategies to Prevent Medical Errors and Related Injuries
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The November 1999 Institute of Medicine report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer
Health System, focused nationwide attention on the issue of medical errors and patient
safety. Additional research has shown that children may be disproportionately affected
by patient safety problems. For example, the rate for potential adverse drug events
was three times higher in children and substantially higher in neonatal intensive
care units.
AHRQ is the lead federal agency responsible for conducting research to improve patient
safety and reduce medical errors throughout the nation's health care system.
AHRQ is pleased to bring you this dynamic Web conference featuring two nationally
recognized pediatric patient safety researchers.
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subscribing to AHRQ's Electronic Newsletter to receive news about all of AHRQ's research,
please go to http://www.ahrq.gov/news/ahrqlist.htm.
Marlene R. Miller
, M.D., M.Sc., currently is Director of Quality and Safety Initiatives
at Johns Hopkins Children's Center. At the time of this Web conference Dr. Miller was
a Medical Officer and team leader for intramural research at the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in
Rockville, MD. After completing her training in pediatrics and pediatric cardiology at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Dr. Miller obtained an M.Sc. from the Graduate
Training Program in Clinical Investigation at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and
Public Health. At AHRQ, she was a lead developer of the Patient Safety Indicators, a
component of AHRQ's Quality Indicators; a developer and analyst of quality measures for
the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; and lead analyst for all the pediatric-specific
measures in the first National Quality Report. She also serves on numerous external
expert panels focused on quality measurement and quality improvement, with the goal of
establishing consistency in quality measurement strategies across the continuum of care.
Rainu Kaushal
, M.D., M.P.H., is an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a
staff physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital, and Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston. After receiving her M.D. cum laude from Harvard Medical School,
she completed a combined medicine and pediatrics residency program based at Brigham and
Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital. After residency, Dr. Kaushal obtained her M.P.H.
from Harvard School of Public Health during a clinical effectiveness fellowship. Dr.
Kaushal's primary research interest is patient safety. She has directed studies of pediatric
inpatient medication errors and adverse drug events, including a study of the effectiveness
of two interventions to reduce serious medication errors. She is currently directing
studies of ambulatory pediatric medication errors and prevention strategies,
cost-effectiveness of computerized physician order entry, and federal policy options
to improve the adoption of computerized physician order entry.
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