Our team engages in research programs to support our patient care activities and our education programs. This includes discharge planning and communication, febrile infant evaluations, clinician interaction with Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and its impact on patient care, assessment strategies of learners and evaluation of education programs. Current general pediatric research projects in our division include:
- Research training: needs assessment and curriculum development
- Health services research including: prescription safety, adoption of HIT and HIE for providers, use of HIE to improve population health, high utilizers and healthcare fragmentation
- The integration of mental health into primary care and pediatrics through education and integrated models of care
- The evaluation of obesity management and education
- Evaluation of nutrition and exercise education for parents of children in early education
- Improvement of transitions from hospital to home
- Improvement of student access to point of care resources to aid history taking and clinical decision-making, as well as the creation and observation of a novel, symptom-based, diagnostic algorithm and illness script app