Aethon made second donation to support the activiites of the Division of Research in Patient Safety. It is very fitting that we see Aethon's robotic pharamcy carts rolling by daily in the hallway.

Leadership in medical settings should be viewed as a "system" with components of delegation, hiearchy, distribution and changes. Reliable performance depends on the leadership system. Ensuring patient safety while fulfilling academic medicine’s training mission requires attendings and fellows to dynamically delegate leadership from moment to moment. These are some fo the findings of a paperin print in the premier journal of Administrative Science Quarterly (2006 December issue), and were part of a project funded by Army Research Institute (PI: Yan Xiao) with collaboration with Katherine Klein.

The series of workshops are organized to explore relationships between architecture and collaborative work through information exchanges, site visits and open presentations. The series is designed to build a bridge between healthcare, human factors, and architecture, with the dual goal of designing safer care environment while contributing to theories of collaborative work.

Open presentation series: http://hfrp.umm.edu/xd/arch/Presentations.pdf
Complete workshop agenda: http://hfrp.umm.edu/xd/arch/agenda.htm

University of Maryland held the first patient safety symposium, with speakers and 47 poster presentations. The symposium was sponsored by Center for Advancement of Patient Safety at University of Maryland. The speakers and poster presenters were from Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Law, in addition to University of Maryland Medical Center.

A paper describing an AHRQ funded study by our group on the effectiveness of videobased training in improving compliance to sterile practices was recently accepted to publish in the journal Critical Care Medicine.

A series of intensive workshops will be held to explore relationships between architecture and collaborative work. Tentative dates are Monday - Wednesday, Feb 26-28th, 2007. Key events include presentations and site visits. Highlights of topics include the placement of OR whiteboards and layout of emergency departments and IMC.

Barbara Kuenzle, visiting from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, will give a lunch seminar (1/31/07 Wednesday) on her PhD dissertation research on adaptive leadership based on videotaped anesthesia induction. She will present preliminary results as well as methodology used such as Survival Analysis. Location is in our suite.

The papers were in press in Journal of Trauma, Administrative Science Quarterly, Cognition, Technology, and Work,  and International Journal of Medical Informatics. Book chapter was published in a handbook on patient safety. Conference abstracts were accepted in American Telemedicine Association and World conference on Disaster Management. Click here for more information.

The inaugural patient safety symposium, organized by CAPSUM, will be held in January 30, 2007, in Shock Trauma Auditorium. In addition to presentations by researchers around the campus, there will be a poster competition. Center for Advancement in Patient Safety at University Maryland (CAPSUM) was established to enhance the integration of research and education with care delivery and to enable multidisciplinary collaboration.

Dr. Scalea will open the third floor new research suite at the Shock Trauma Center Building. The suite will house Divisions of Research in Patient Safety and Clinical and Outcomes Research. Lunch is served at 12:00noon, T3R85. Dr. Manser's presentation will follow.