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Center for Health Services Research
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Patient Safety
Patient Safety Organization
The mission of the CHRP Patient Safety Organization (PSO) is
to assist patients, health care practitioners, and provider
organizations minimize risk and avoidable harm through improvement of
health service utilization and practices. In order to fulfill our
mission, the CHRP PSO will provide a variety of avenues in which to
disseminate patient safety information and report safety errors.
In accordance with the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services Patient Safety and Quality Act of 2005, the CRHP PSO
will provide a confidential vehicle for health care practitioners and
institutional providers to participate in quality review activities
through the routine reporting of PSO data on individual patient safety
events which impacted or had the potential to impact patients adversely.
The CHRP PSO will also provide a portal for other groups to voluntarily
transmit patient safety data directly to the government.
The CHRP PSO has established a panel of patient safety
experts (made up of Creighton University faculty members from the School
of Pharmacy and Health Professions, School of Nursing, and the School of
Medicine) to review adverse event reports and recommend safety
improvement actions within an accelerated response system. This review
panel will serve as a vehicle through which patient safety information
and recommendations for improvement in safety processes can be
disseminated quickly and efficiently to all stakeholders.
Patient Safety
Expert Panel Reviewers
Name:
Linda Scheirton, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Associate Professor,
Faculty Associate in the Center for Health Care Policy and Ethics,
PSO Coordinator
Biography:
Linda S. Scheirton is a bioethicist with clinical experience in ethics
consultation, dental hygiene and patient safety. She has developed and
taught ethics courses in various health care disciplines including
physical therapy, nursing, occupational therapy, dentistry, and medicine
as well as co-taught an interdisciplinary course in patient safety for
health science students.
Areas of Expertise:
She has focused expertise in the moral
management of patient error: disclosure, apology and reparation. Current
research efforts include the study of practitioner errors in
occupational therapy and physical therapy practice.
Name:
Kimberly Galt, Pharm.D., F.A.S.H.P.
Associate Dean for Research, School of Pharmacy and Health
Professions, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, Director Center for
Health Services Research and Patient Safety (CHRP)
Biography:
Kimberly Galt is a pharmacist with practice experience in hospitals,
physician clinics, community pharmacy practice, long term care
facilities, in the private and public sectors including the Veterans
Affairs.
Areas of Expertise:
She has focused expertise in the areas of health information
technologies and e-Health, information exchange, clinical decision and
evidence-based support, medication therapy management and communication.
Name: Amy Abbott, Ph.D., RN
Biography:
Amy Abbott is a
nurse with practice
experience in hospitals and home
health sites in the
public and private sectors.
Areas of Expertise:
Her research interests
and focused expertise are in the areas of
patient
safety, health information technology, and
symptom
management in cardiac populations.
Name:
James D. Bramble, Ph.D.
Biography:
J.D. Bramble is a health services researcher in the Creighton Health
Services Research Program with experience in examining the relationship
of organizational factors to resource utilization, health information
technology, quality, and safety.
Areas of
Expertise:
He has expertise and experience in the areas of health information
technologies and patient safety. He is currently involved in the
National Implementation of TeamSTEPPS, an evidence-based system to
improve the communication and teamwork skills of health care
professionals with the aim of optimizing patient outcomes and improving
patient safety.
Name:
Bartholomew Clark, R.Ph., Ph.D.
Biography:
Bart Clark is a pharmacist whose professional focus centers on social
and administrative sciences in pharmacy and pharmacy administration.
Areas of
Expertise:
His research interests include personal and pharmacy workplace
attributes that contribute to a pharmacists’ sense of workplace control,
to their organizational commitment and to patient safety; and revenue
streams in the pharmacy benefit management (PBM) industry.
Name:
Teresa Cochran, P.T., D.P.T., G.C.S., M.A.
Biography:
Teresa Cochran is a physical therapist
who earned a master’s degree in
psychology and
specialist board certification in geriatric
physical
therapy from the American Board of Physical
Therapy Specialties. She co-directs the Office of
Interprofessional Scholarship, Service and
Education
(OISSE) in the School of Pharmacy and Health
Professions, and is a Faculty Affiliate in the
Center for
Health Policy and Ethics at Creighton University.
Her
teaching responsibilities are focused in the area
of
behavioral science and evidence-based decision
making.
Areas of Expertise:
Her research interest include
exploring practice errors in rehabilitation, access to
rehabilitation for vulnerable groups, and prevention of
chronic conditions and disability.
Name:
Andjela Drincic, M.D.
Biography:
Andjela Drincic is an endocrinologist with practice experience in
community and academic hospitals, outpatient medical clinics, and
Veterans Administration Hospital systems.
Areas of Expertise:
She has focused expertise in the areas of hospital medication safety
(specifically insulin safety), clinical decision and evidence-based
support (medication protocol development), medication therapy
management, and health information technologies.
Name:
Kevin Fuji, Pharm.D.
Biography:
Kevin Fuji is a pharmacist and Research
Fellow in Health Services Research with a focus
on
Patient Safety. He also teaches in an
interprofessional course in patient safety.
Areas of Expertise:
He has
expertise in the areas of
patient safety and health information technology,
with
a focus on personal health records.
Name:
Helene Lohman, O.T.D., O.T.R./L.
Biography:
Helene Lohman is an occupational
therapist with practice experience in
acute care,
outpatient care, skilled nursing facilities,
hospice and
home health. She is currently an associate
professor
and teaches health care policy, elder care, and
occupational therapy hand and upper extremity
rehabilitation.
Areas of Expertise:
She has
focused expertise in
the areas of occupational and physical therapy
practitioner error and patient safety.
Name:
Keli Mu, Ph.D., O.TR./L.
Biography:
Keli Mu is a research methodologist and
occupational therapist with great interest in practice errors and
patient/client safety. He has co-taught an interprofessional course in
patient safety and teaches research methodology courses to professional
doctoral students.
Areas of Expertise:
He has research expertise in practitioner errors in rehabilitation and
evidence-based practice.
Name:
Karen Paschal, P.T., D.P.T., M.S.
Biography:
Karen Paschal is a physical therapist with practice experience in urban
and rural hospitals, both public and private, long term care facilities,
home health, and ambulatory care.
Areas of Expertise:
She has focused expertise in the areas of fall prevention, health
information technology, information exchange, and consumer advocacy.
Name:
Mark Siracuse, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Biography:
Mark Siracuse is a pharmacist with experience in community pharmacy
practice, and pharmacy benefit management companies
Areas
of Expertise:
He has expertise in the areas of e-prescribing, electronic health
records, health information technologies and medication therapy
management
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