Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0879002

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0879002

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Examining organisational complexity and clinical risk to improve hospital patients' safety. Improving communicative practices will reduce the massive rate and cost of medication errors and hospital-acquired infections. Current costs of hospital-caused incidents are around AU$2 billion per year. These costs are likely to rise further because hospitals are becoming busier, more culturally and linguistically diverse, less generously resourced per patient, and more technologically capable of keeping sicker patients alive for longer, leading to increased clinical risk and more incidents. This project could save around 20% of the total cost of hospital operations by reducing lengths of stay, lowering re-admission rates and ensuring better deployment of clinical resources.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2008

End Date: 31-12-2012

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $475,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Other Language And Culture | Public Health and Health Services | Public Health And Health Services Not Elsewhere Classified | Quality Management

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Public health not elsewhere classified | Changing work patterns |

Other Keywords

Changing work patterns | Communication Not Elsewhere Classified | Other Language And Culture | Public Health And Health Services Not Elsewhere Classified | Public Health and Health Services | Public health not elsewhere classified | Quality Management

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