AHRQ Child & Adolescent Health Periodic Digest

Volume 14, No. 51, February 20, 2015   Patient Safety Learning Laboratories – New AHRQ FOA Posted Registration Now Open for 5th Annual QI Research Methods Conference AHRQ Stats: Health Care Usage  Patient Safety Learning Laboratories – New AHRQ FOA Posted The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently posted a new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) that calls for the creation and utilization of patient safety learning laboratories. These laboratories will include both places and professional networks where threats to patient safety can be identified, multidisciplinary teams can generate new ways of thinking about the threats, and brainstorming and rapid prototyping techniques will lead to the development and testing of promising design features and systems to improve patient safety. Letters of intent are due March 27, and the application receipt date is April 27, 2015.  Go to: http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-HS-15-001.html Registration Now Open for 5th Annual QI Research Methods Conference Registration is now open for the Academic Pediatric Association’s 5th Annual Quality Improvement (QI) Research Methods Conference, supported in part by an AHRQ conference grant. The conference will be held at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel, San Diego, CA, on April 24, 2015, the day before the official start of the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting. This year’s conference includes interactive sessions on study design and research methods of high relevance to QI and its evaluation, a preconference breakfast with the faculty, several prominent keynote speakers, and a closing plenary session featuring the best of the abstracts submitted to the conference. Go to: http://www.academicpeds.org/specialInterestGroups/QIfolder/QI2015Programcorrected.pdf AHRQ Stats: Health Care Usage In 2011, 1 percent of the U.S. population accounted for nearly 22 percent of total health care spending. Nearly one in five of those individuals remained in the top 1 percent of health care spenders in 2012. This statistical brief presents data from AHRQ’s Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS), including data on children ages 0-17. Go to: http://meps.ahrq.gov/mepsweb/data_files/publications/st449/stat449.shtml AHRQ Related Articles Freedman JL, Faerber J, Kang TI, et al. Predictors of antiemetic alteration in pediatric acute myeloid leukemia. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2014;61(10):1798-805. Select for the abstract. Menon S, Kirkendall ES, Nguyen H, et al. Acute kidney injury associated with high nephrotoxic medication exposure leads to chronic kidney disease after 6 months. J Pediatr 2014;165(3):522-7. Select for the abstract.  Profit J, Sharek PJ, Amspoker AB, et al. burnout in the NICU setting and its relation to safety culture. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23(10):806-13. Select for the abstract.  Sexton JB, Sharek PJU, Thomas EJ, et al. Exposure to Leadership WalkRounds in neonatal intensive care units is associated with a better patient safety culture and less caregiver burnout. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23(10):814-22. Select for the abstract.