Research Areas
Quality Improvement in Care
Improving Hospital-to-Home Transition for Children
Kavita Parikh, MD, MSHS, and her team are funded by a career development award from the Agency of Health Research and Quality. She is piloting a community-based hospital-to-home transition plan for patients and their caregivers after a hospitalization for an asthma exacerbation. A patient-centered transition plan is being developed from qualitative interviews with stakeholders, including caregivers, asthma educators, primary care physicians, hospitalists, pulmonologists, school nurses and payers. The program will be piloted by enrolling children during a hospitalization for an asthma exacerbation and following them outpatient.
Faculty with Interests in Quality Improvement in Care
Rana Hamdy, MD, MPH, MSCE
- Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
- Infectious Disease Specialist
Chaya T. Merrill, DrPH
- Director, Child Health Data Lab
- Assistant Director, Community Engagement Research Component
Katherine Patterson Kelly, PhD, RN
- Nurse Scientist, Department of Nursing Research and Quality Outcomes
Kavita Parikh, MD
- Research Director, Division of Hospital Medicine
- Medical Director, Quality and Safety Research
Jacqueline Saito, MD, MSCI, MBA
- Chief Quality and Safety Officer
- Vice President, Medical Affairs