AHRQ-Funded Projects
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Designing User-Centered Decision Support Tools for Chronic Pain in Primary Care
This project will develop decision support tools that integrate with electronic health records to increase the quality and effectiveness of chronic pain care.
Developing Design Principles to Integrate Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) Into Clinical Practice Through Health Information Technology: Data, User Experience, and Workflow Requirements for PRO Dashboards
This project will develop design principles to enable more effective integration of patient-reported outcomes data into patient care activities through health information technology.
Care Transitions and Teamwork in Pediatric Trauma: Implications for Health Information Technology Design
This project seeks to develop an understanding of the cognitive work of clinician teams and family members involved in pediatric trauma care transitions in order to design usable and useful health information technologies.
Electronic Health Record Solutions for Accurate Reporting of Data on Interprofessional Intensive Care Unit rounds
This project will develop a series of standards for electronic health records to ensure adequate and accurate data communication for care team members in the intensive care environment.
Optimizing Display of Blood Pressure Data To Support Clinical Decision
This project will determine the optimal display of blood pressure data for patients and their physicians in order to facilitate shared decisionmaking about blood pressure control and treatment.
Clinical Information Needs of Community Health Centers for Health Information Technology
This project will identify the information needs required to ensure effective care coordination for complex patients through extensive ethnographic assessment and interviews, and employ user-centered design methods to rapidly develop and test tools that address these needs.
Understanding Primary Care Teamwork in Context: Implications for Health Information Technology Design
This project will inform the design of electronic health records to support the cognitive work of primary care clinicians and teams.
The Effect of Health Information Technology on Health Care Provider Communication
The purpose of this study is to describe how communication technologies make it easier or more difficult for nurses and physicians to communicate with each other, with a goal of finding ways to support effective communication.
Cognitive Engineering for Complex Decisionmaking & Problem Solving in Acute Care
This project will apply the science of human factors and cognitive engineering to the design of clinical decision support and information technology with the goal of improving patient safety.
Optimizing the Electronic Health Record for Cardiac Care
This project will study the usability of electronic health records (EHRs) by cardiac care physicians and nurses to develop a set of best practices in EHR design to inform vendors of the wants and needs of clinical providers.


