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BWH is proud to be the recipient of a Center of Excellence award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). One of three institutions to receive a project grant, BWH intends to build upon other hospital initiatives to improve patient safety. The Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice’s main goal is to improve medication safety across a variety of clinical settings and various patient populations through six research projects.
“The Center will focus on improving medication safety in a number of understudied settings such as the outpatient pediatric setting, nursing homes and in psychiatry,” said David W. Bates, MD, chief of General Internal Medicine at BWH and principal investigator/program director of the Center of Excellence.
Funded through AHRQ, the Center of Excellence is headquartered and directed at BWH with collaboration from area institutions including: MGH, Harvard School of Public Health, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Children’s Hospital, the Risk Management Foundation, McLean Hospital and UMass Medical Center. AHRQ has committed $5 million of their 2001 patient safety directed funding to support this Center over a five-year period.
“The collaborative research will provide BWH and other institutions with valuable information to enhance patient safety and improve medication delivery,” said Deborah Tian Verrier, RN, program manager for the Center.
The research projects will include: