The Meyers Primary Care Institute

Selected current grants

Enhancing the Safety of Warfarin in the Nursing Home (Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research)

The major goal of this study is to determine whether a nursing home warfarin management protocol emphasizing facilitated communication to physicians will improve the quality of anticoagulation management, which will be assessed using widely accepted quality measures.

Improving Post Hospital Medication Management of Older Adults through Health IT (Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research)

The major goal of this project is to develop and evaluate the value of enhanced, HIT based medication reconciliation system superimposed on the ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) to improve the quality and safety of medication management, focusing particularly on the transition from the inpatient to the ambulatory setting for older adults with multiple comorbid conditions who are prescribed high risk medications.

Using HIT to Improve Transitions of Complex Elderly Patients from SNF to Home (Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research)

This objective of this study is to propose a randomized trial to evaluate a health information technology transitional care intervention with enhanced medication reconciliation and monitoring alerts to improve medication safety among older patients during transitions from skilled nursing facilities to home.

Risk Informed Intervention to Improve Ambulatory Drug Monitoring and Safety (Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research)

This study proposes a multi-pronged intervention to lower the rate of the medication error that was most commonly found to cause serious adverse drug events: inadequate laboratory monitoring for high risk medications.

"Cost-related Underuse of Medications and the Health of Older Adults" (National Institute of Aging)

The aim is to gain a better understanding of cost-related medication nonadherence (CRN) and its effect on the health of older adults.

"Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in Survival from Colorectal Cancer” (National Cancer Institute)

The specific aims are to compare colorectal cancer survival rates by race/ethnicity over the period 1993 through 2004 and compare the distribution of tumor stage at diagnosis for colorectal cancer by race/ethnicity.