Research in the Asad Latif Lab focuses on patient safety and quality improvement. Our key inter...ests include preventing hospital-acquired infections and improving health systems, the evaluation and prevention of healthcare errors and the utility of telemedicine in intensive care units. One recent study focused on reducing medication errors (the single most common type of error in healthcare) related to drug formulation in the intensive care unit. view more

Research in the Daniel Brotman Lab focuses on aspects of hospital medicine such as quality impr...ovement, patient satisfaction and perioperative medicine. We recently conducted a cohort study of hypertensive African Americans to examine how access to care, treatment ambivalence and medication non-adherence affect long-term mortality. view more

Researchers in the David Thompson Lab examine the outcomes of patients treated in intensive car...e units (ICUs), patient safety efforts, quality improvement efforts, and multidisciplinary teamwork and safety curriculum development. We're taking part in a study aimed at reducing hospital-acquired infections among cardiovascular surgery patients. Our investigators also participated in a clinical research collaboration that saw an 81 percent reduction in bloodstream infections related to central lines. view more

Researchers in the Henry Michtalik Lab are interested in patient safety—particularly as it rela...tes to patient census statistics and acute to primary care transitions—and quality improvement and systems management. view more

Research in the Sara Mixter Lab focuses on primary care medical education, particularly quality... improvement, high-value care and care transitions for adolescents with developmental disabilities and other special health care needs. view more