Improving Patient Safety Through Education, Research, Collaboration and Training
If you have an interest in learning more or applying for any of the following grants, please contact Dianne Vass, Executive Director at the Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation. dvass@empsf.org.
EMPSF/ACEP Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) Jointly Fund A $75,000 Patient Safety Research Training Grant:
- Awarded over a 12-month period to enhance the development of an emergency medicine patient safety researcher
- Successful applications will describe a significant, relevant, and feasible research project in the area of patient safety, as well as a mentored training program designed to provide the applicant with a foundation for becoming an emergency medicine patient safety research leader
- Deadline to apply is January 9th, 2012 - www.emfoundation.org. Award will be announced in early April.
- Additionally, EMPSF provides funds for the recipient to participate in the American Hospital Association/National Patient Safety Foundation (AHA/NPSF) Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship http://www.ahafellowships.org
EMPSF/Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) co-sponsor a $10,000 Research Grant:
Congratulations to 2011 Award Recipient:
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Robert J. Stephens, PhD - Human Factors Research Scientist National Center for Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare MedStar Health, Washington DC |
Research Project: Discovering the Barriers and Facilitators to Timely Disposition of Patients from the Emergency Department
EMPSF and EMF encourages applications with a focus on health services research, including but not limited to, health policy, practice, medical liability, regionalization, patient safety, and hospital utilization. We are committed to supporting actionable research that directly impacts the care of our patients.
- Grant applications are closed for 2011. Sign up for our e-Alerts/E-Newsletter for information on upcoming 2012 grant cycle.
Small Grants Program/Grants Range from $500-$1,000 funded year round:
Created to assist ED practitioners with their development of innovative ideas & strategies to improve quality & advance safety in the Emergency Department. The purpose of this program is to stimulate & provide funding for small projects done by clinicians or administrators seeking to:
- Advance quality through patient safety initiatives
- Focus quality efforts specifically on practitioners working in the Emergency Department or ancillary staff necessary to support the care of the patient in the ED
- Describe evidence based practice which has been proven to improve emergency medicine patient safety
- Advance improvements within direct patient care, service, quality and/or operations
Download the Small Grants Application
Criteria include:
- Meet EMPSF's safety & quality objectives and have sufficiently narrow project scope to be completed within 9 months
- Focus on issues of interest or concern to Emergency Medicine providers or patients
- Ability to be developed into formal teaching materials so that strategies behind your success can be replicated
- Description of your activity & the final report shared with your ED colleagues in appropriate venues, either on our website, new media or in our annual newsletter
- For more information, contact Dianne Vass, Executive Director, dvass@empsf.org
EMPSF/SAEM Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Research Fellows:
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Wesley H. Self, MD Vanderbilt University Medical Center 2011-2012 |
Research Project: A Patient Safety Initiative to Minimize Blood Culture Contamination in the ED
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Rosemarie Fernandez, MD Wayne State University School of Medicine 2010-2011 |
Research Project: To Develop and Validate Metrics to Assess Physician Performance in a Team Context, its Effects on Team Processes, and its Impact on Team Performance During Assessment and Resuscitation of Rapidly Decompensating Patients
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Lisa Calder, MD, MSc, FRCPC Ottawa Health Research Institute 2009-2010 |
Research Project: Understanding Disposition Decision Making in the Emergency Department
- Expanded the research project based on learnings from the Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship
- Taught 2 Academic half days to residents on "Cognitive Processes Behind Decision Making in the ED"
- Invited to present at Grand Rounds
- Research Abstract accepted for presentation at SAEM Annual Meeting last June 2010
- 3 Publications in process from project research
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Daniel Patterson, PhD, MPH University of Pittsburgh 2008-2009 |
Research Project: To Study Turnover, Crew Mixing and its Impact on Patient Safety
- Research findings are currently under consideration at a peer-reviewed journal
- 2009-Secured funding from the NIH and University of Pittsburgh's Clinical Research Scholars Program
- 4 Publications
- On-track to becoming an independently funded Investigator in Patient Safety
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Terry Fairbanks, MD, MS, FACEP University of Rochester 2007-2008 |
Research Project: Using Human Factors Engineering Methodologies to Reduce Error in Medical Devices and Information Systems
- May 2008-SAEM Young Investigator Award
- June 2008-Kluge Trauma & Emergency Medical Services Award
- Spring 2009-Recipient of $600,000 4-year NIH KO8 Award
- Published > 50 Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- 30 National Presentations & 7 Grand Rounds
- 2010 Recipient of EMPSF $10,000 Grant-Development of RCA Hierarchy Tool
