AHRQ-Funded Projects
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Speech Telerehabilition After Stroke: Proof-of-Concept and Feasibility
This project will conduct a proof-of-concept and feasibility study of aphasia telerehabilitation for stroke patients with aphasia residing in rural North Carolina.
Novel IT To Create Patient-Integrated Quality Improvement
This research created, piloted, and evaluated FIQS, the Family Input to Quality and Safety tool, that allows pediatric patients and their caregivers to provide safety reports regarding their inpatient care.
Enhancing Clinical Decision Support Applications for Community Pharmacist-Delivered Medication Therapy Management
This project will formulate evidence-based recommendations for clinical decision support used by community pharmacist delivering medication therapy management. The goal is to reduce medication-related problems and improve health outcomes for chronically ill patients.
Interactive Patient-Centered Discharge Toolkit To Promote Self-Management During Transitions
This project will implement and evaluate a previously developed, interactive, patient-centered discharge toolkit to improve the transition of care from the inpatient to outpatient settings.
Electronic Medication Adherence Reporting and Feedback During Care Transitions
This project will implement and evaluate a “smart” pillbox given to patients in order to understand its ability to minimize discrepancies in prescribed regimens and to improve patients’ medication adherence after hospital discharge.
Intervention INC: Interactive Nutrition Comics for Urban Minority Youth
The research team designed and developed “Invention INC,” an interactive nutrition comic for dietary self-management, focused on reducing childhood obesity risk in urban minority youth.
Improving Diagnosis of Hypertension in Children (IDHC)
This project developed, implemented, and evaluated a program that includes clinical decision support to improve diagnosis of hypertension in children.
Improving Anxiety Detection in Pediatrics Using Health Information Technology
This project integrated a validated anxiety-specific screening tool in an existing clinical decision support system and tested it with a randomized feasibility pilot that found the tool did not increase detection of anxiety in pediatric primary care.
Improving Outpatient Safety of Older Adults Through Electronic Patient Portals
This project evaluated the effects of providing caregivers of older adults proxy access to electronic patient portals and found that information exchange between caregivers and providers increased.
Patient-Centered Data Visualizations for Diabetes
This project developed a diabetes data visualization mobile application for adolescents and found that clinical and contextual data provided greater opportunity for self management and problem solving.