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CHIPS Announcements

• Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Fellowship Applications DUE Nov 2012

  Graduates of accredited residency programs, particularly those pursuing careers in hospital medicine, are encouraged to apply. The two-year health policy and health services program focusing on quality improvement and patient safety sciences leads to a M.S. degree in Health Policy Research and will prepare physicians for leadership roles in quality improvement and patient safety research, administration, or education.                                                                                                          
  Candidates apply to the Master of Science in Health Policy Research Program indicating their interest in the CHIPS Fellowship in the personal statement. Applications for the program starting in July, 2013 are due November 30, 2012. For additional information about the program, please contact Dr. Jennifer S. Myers. For application materials and instructions, please contact

  Elliot Adler, mshp@mail.med.upenn.edu.

  
  
  

• pAtient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR)    
  Career Development Program (K12)
  Applications now open
  

  Click here for details about the program and application information.
  
  

• 2012-2014 CHIPS Fellows Appointed

  Katherine Bates, MD is a research fellow in the division of pediatric cardiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Dr. Bates' research focuses on understanding and improving handoffs between care providers as they change shifts.  Dr. Bates is also active in CHOP’s Interstage Single Ventricle Monitoring Program, part of a nationwide collaborative to improve quality of care for a particularly vulnerable group of infants with congenital heart disease.                                                                                                                                             lona Lorinz, MD is a fellow in endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Lorincz's research interests include improving healthcare delivery for patients with diabetes, specifically in evaluating strategies to optimize collaboration between primary care physicians and specialists and in preventing hospital readmissions by improving glycemic control during transitions of care.

• Multi Site Readmission Study Launched

  CHIPS, in partnership with HOMERUN, a nationwide network of 15 academic medical centers, is collecting and comparing medical record based measures of the adequacy of discharge coordination and comparing performance locally to that in the network.  The researchers are interviewing patients readmitted within 30 days of discharge and surveying their discharging, re-admitting, and primary care physicians for their perspectives on the discharge process.  This study will synthesize multi-site, patient-level chart review data with physician and patient perspectives into a standardized assessment of the preventability of readmissions through a process of adjudication by expert reviewers.