NIH R01 · 2025
Family Input for Quality and Safety Dissemination and Implementation
Abstract Adverse patient safety event rates remain stubbornly high in hospitals. For children, adverse events are 1.5-2 times more common than in adult inpatients (40.0 vs. 25.1 harms/100 admissions). Family members and patients are often close observers of care, focusing on only one patient and one set of diagnoses. Text messaging and mobile phone applications technologies offer the opportunity to gather patients’ and families’ safety reports in real-time, addressing limitations of prior work. The PI and team co-designed a mobile phone- based approach, the Family Input for Quality and Safety (FIQS) with families and clinicians. They tested it across 3 local hospitals and 9 units,…
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