Quality & Saftey

Our investigators aim to improve the quality, safety and equity of healthcare delivery, experience and outcomes. Faculty within the center employ expertise across a variety of initiatives in developing and deploying risk assessment methods; the redesign of systems and processes of care to improve care safety reliability; quality and safety epidemiology; measures development; process improvement; leading quality collaboratives; and the development and analysis of process and outcome measures data collected through local, regional and national quality and safety databases and repositories. Faculty come from a variety of disciplines, including engineering, healthcare management and communications, and from a wide range of medical specialties and settings (including surgery, emergency medicine, obstetrics, pediatrics and endocrinology) as well as healthcare professions (physician medicine, nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy, etc.).