The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) awarded $50 million in new grants, contracts, and other activities to reduce medical errors and improve patient safety. This represents the single largest investment the Federal Government has made so far to combat the estimated 44,000-98,000 patient deaths related to medical errors each year.
Part of a multiyear effort, these Fiscal Year 2001 projects will address key unanswered questions about how errors occur and will provide science-based information on what patients, clinicians, hospital and other organization leaders, policymakers, and others can do to address this important problem.
The results of the research will include information on errors and patient safety improvement strategies.
Detailed information can be accessed in two ways:
Supporting Demonstration Projects to Report Medical Errors Data
Using Computers and Information Technology To Prevent Medical
Errors
Understanding the Impact of Working Conditions on Patient
Safety
Developing Innovative Approaches to Improving Patient Safety
Disseminating Research Results
Additional Patient Safety Research Initiatives
To search for recently awarded patient safety research projects, enter the key word associated with the project below. See Search Tips for searching by State and Name of Principle Investigator and Project Officer.
To search for phrases, use quotation marks (such as: "North Carolina").
Note how to search for:
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