Patient Safety: enabling and supporting change for a safer and more effective health system

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/568612

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Internationally, patient safety is a growing concern. Patient harm occurs in 10% of hospital admissions. A million adverse events occur in general practice each year in Australia. Overseas data reports that patients receive recommended care only 50% of the time. We will significantly advance this work by investigating how and why this ccurs, with a focus on the roles of teamwork, safe medication use and the application of information technology to support improved decision-making.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2013

Funding Scheme: Programs

Funding Amount: $8,878,409.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Ophthalmology and optometry not elsewhere classified

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

decision support techniques, quality of care | evaluation studies, patient management | health services research in NHPA's | info systems-decision support system - clinical | safety, health services research, health systems

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