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Courses
Tools for Researchers and Practitioners
New Initiatives
- Robert McQuillan, M.D. has received funding
from the Creighton University Health Future’s Foundation Faculty Development
Grant for his project entitled: “Changing Safety Culture in the
Perioperative Area". This is a two-year project. R. Armour Forse, M.D. and
James D. Bramble, Ph.D. are co-Principal Investigators and Rasheed Amao,
M.D. and Kimberly Galt, Pharm.D. are co-investigators for this project.
- Rene' Padilla, Ph.D./OTR/L, FAOTA has received
funding from the United Nations High Commission on Refugees / Amnesty
International for his project entitled: “Modelos de Atencion a Migrantes
Victimas de Tortura y Privadas de Libertad (Service Models for Migrants Who
Have Been Victims of Torture and False Imprisonment)". This is a 3-phase,
3-year grant demonstration project.
- Kimberly Galt, Pharm.D., Ann Ryan-Haddad,
Pharm.D., and Mark Siracuse, Pharm.D., Ph.D. are working collaboratively
with the
State of Nebraska and UNMC to develop a practice model on the conduct of
medication reviews for therapeutic drug management. This work is in support
of the state quality improvement initiative and is expected to occur over a
3-year period.
CHRP Calendar
September through November
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state-of-the-art data workstations are now available. These data
workstations are available to all SPAHP faculty, staff, and students. If
interested in utilizing this area, please contact the
CHRP office.
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 Paramedic Critical
Care Survey
Creighton University is conducting a
survey to assess the practices and status of critical care
transportation in the United States. This project is being
led by William Raynovich Ed.D., MPH, NREMTP, Assistant
Professor and Director Emergency Medical Services Program.
For additional information, please contact him directly at
(402) 280-1285 or via email at billr@creighton.edu.
Data is being collected and analyzed at
this time. A complete report will be posted to the
Creighton Health Services Research Program (CHRP) website in
October of 2008.
Health Information
Technology Report
The Creighton Health Services Research
Program (CHRP) has compiled a report entitled, Status of
Health Information Technology in Nebraska: Focus on
Electronic Health Records in Physician Offices
describing the status of electronic health record adoption
in physician offices in Nebraska along with other related
implications for health information technology.
This report was developed as part of a
project sponsored by the grant “Enhancing Clinical Practices
through the Adoption of Health Information Technology in
Nebraska” from the Nebraska Medical Association/Foundation,
and in part by grant no. 1P20 HS015816 Galt, K.A., (PI)
Building Research Infrastructure Capacity from the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
The purpose of the project is to
improve patient safety and enhance quality and efficiency
within the health care system.
The project will help physician
practices:
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Evaluate
their readiness to adopt an EHR;
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Evaluate their current workflow and
business processes to identify opportunities to improve
these areas for a more successful transition to an
electronically based system; and
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Learn more about health information
technologies (HITs) that enhance systems of medical
care.
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AHRQ Project Officer Visited Creighton University
about BRIC Funding
The Building Research
Infrastructure Capacity (BRIC) team hosted a Health
Sciences Retreat Wednesday, November 14 and Thursday,
November 15. We welcomed Dr. Kay Anderson from Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) as our guest at this
retreat. She accepted our invitation to visit and assist us
with evaluating our progress in developing infrastructure
and capacity to sustain an effort in health services
research on our campus.
Dr. Kay Anderson
received her Ph.D. in Health Education at the University of
Maryland, College Park and has been a Federal employee
within the Department of Health and Human Services for 18
years. Her first several years were spent at the National
Center for Health Statistics where she did survey
development and health behaviors research. She then spent
time as Acting Director of Research in the Office of
Research on Women's Health at NIH. For the past seven
years, she has served as a Program Official at the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Anderson manages a
large portion the Agency's career training portfolio and has
overseen the Building Research Infrastructure and Capacity
BRIC) Program since its inception in 2001.
Dr. Kay Anderson
Presentations:
Dr.
Kay Anderson, AHRQ
Drs. Steven Fleming and Margaret Love, University of
Kentucky
Dr. John Creswell, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Members of the BRIC team
Mixed-Methods
Workshop
On September 27, 2007,
Creighton University Grants Administration and the Creighton
Health Services Research Program (CHRP) co-sponsored a
successful Mixed Methods Research Workshop for Creighton
faculty.
Full news article
Electronic Health
Records in Nebraska
A study of the state of Nebraska being
conducted by the Nebraska Medical Association with the
support of the Creighton Health Services Program is in
progress to describe the state of electronic medical record
(EMR) adoption in physician office-based practices within
the state of Nebraska. See the baseline findings as of
May 2007 in this report.
May
2007
Patient Safety Portfolio
The Patient Safety Portfolio of Scholarship
and Research report was developed by the School of Pharmacy
and Health Professions Office of Research. This report
was prepared to respond to specific requests about what is
happening in patient safety by the American Association of
Colleges of Pharmacy, the state of Nebraska eHealth Council,
and the Nebraska Health Information Initiative (NeHII).
This is a strong area of development,
research, and scholarship that several faculty and students
have been highly involved in and are making contributions to
the state and the nation through this work.
June 2007
BRIC Researchers Support the
Heath Information Security and Privacy Committee (HISPC)
State of Nebraska
In 2004, the President of the United States
issued Executive Order 13335 to promote health information
technology nationwide, to improve efficiency, reduce medical
errors, improve quality of care, and provide better
information exchange for patients and physicians.
The
Lieutenant Governor for the State of Nebraska formed the
Health Information Security and Privacy Committee (HISPC) in
2006. The vision driving the HISPC is to create the
flexibility to electronically exchange patient authorized
health care information, confidentially and securely between
the patient/client and all appropriate persons involved in
the health care process. Faculty scientists who are involved
in the BRIC grant, Andjela Drincic MD, Amy Abbott RN MS, James D.
Bramble PhD MPH, Karen Paschal PT DPT MS, Kim Galt PharmD, Mark Siracuse
PharmD PhD, and Ann Rule, PharmD have been involved in
mixed methods research to inform the HISPC Committee about security
and privacy issues and health information interoperability
in the state. The research reports are planned
for completion by mid April 2007.
Report 1:
Survey of
Health/Licensure/Certification and Facilities Oversight
Board Managers
Report 2: Survey of Health Professions
Organizations Leadership
Report 3: Study of Consumer View Points on Health
Information, Security, and Privacy
Final Report:
Security and
Privacy Barriers to Health Information Interoperability
Recommendations Summary
Health Services Research Program Receives Federal BRIC-AHRQ Grant
Award
The Creighton Health Services Research program (CHRP) has
been awarded $499,979 for its Building Research
Infrastructure Capacity (BRIC) program funded through the
federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Kimberly Galt, CHRP Director and Associate Dean for
Research and Professor of Pharmacy Practice, is the
principal investigator of the two-year grant. The BRIC
program is a merit-based, peer-reviewed program in response
to Congressional intent to broaden geographic distribution
of health services research funding among institutions
located in states in which the collective success rate for
applications to the AHRQ have historically been low. The
health services research grant will help Creighton
University achieve and sustain long-term competitive funding
while improving capacity and support for the research
faculty as well as developing processes that support forming
and maintaining interdisciplinary research teams and support
timely dissemination of research products generated through
the conduct of health services research. The emphasis will
be on Patient Safety and Health Information Technology.
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Dr.
Shirley Blanchard, Associate Professor in Occupational
Therapy
Project:
Occupational Therapy Practice in
Rural Nebraska: Meeting Health Care Needs
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Shirley Blanchard, Ph.D., OTR/L has received funding
through the SPAHP Faculty Development Research Grant
program. The major focus of this project is to increase
entry level occupational therapy students’ interest and
desire in pursuing a professional career in occupational
service delivery in rural Nebraska. By increasing students’
knowledge about rural practice, constructing positive active
learning experiences (leading to development of clinical
skills), increasing successful service delivery to patients
in rural areas, and being supervised by experienced rural
occupational therapy practitioners, students will gain an
understanding of the need for occupational therapy in rural
practice and choose to work in a shortage area. In the
Spring 2005, 11 OTII students completed an overnight stay at
one of the rural training sites (Gothenburg, Sidney, or
Hebron). For the fall semester 2005, 22 students signed up
and 15 actually completed the experience.
All student participants shared
reflections with their classmates, participated in focus
groups and completed questionnaires (pre and post tests).
Quantitative and qualitative data continues to be entered in
the data file. The website for this project is
ruralot.creighton.edu. The project team includes
Shirley Blanchard, PI and Keli Mu, Co-PI and Michelle
Walding, Grant Assistant
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