INQRI in the Spotlight
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INQRI Team Offers New Tools to Measure Pain Management
Susan Beck and her colleagues at the University of Utah have published the first phase of their INQRI-sponsored work to develop tools to measure the quality of care related to pain management.
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INQRI Grantee Appointed to the National Advisory Council for AHRQ
Congratulations to Nancy E. Donaldson, D.N.Sc., R.N. on her appointment to the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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INQRI Team Member Receives MacArthur Foundation Genius Award
Peter Pronovost, M.D., a two-time grantee of the Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) program and critical care physician and professor at Johns Hopkins University, was one of 25 recipients of a $500,000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur "Genius" Award.
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Rural Delivery: Health Care Lessons from North Dakota
INQRI Grantee, Mary Wakefield, is "In the Spotlight" for the Commonwealth Fund.
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Testing an Inpatient Nursing Intensity Billing Model
Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice - Volume 9, Issue 2
INQRI grantee, John Welton's paper "Testing an Inpatient Nursing Intensity Billing Model" was featured in this special edition of Policy, Politics & Nursing Practice. The articles in this edition were based on papers delivered at The Economics of Nursing Invitational Conference: Paying for Quality Nursing Care, sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy in June 2007.
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Eliminating Bloodstream Infections: Influences of Nurse Turnover and Teamwork Activities
INQRI Grantee David Thompson, DNSc, MS, RN, from Johns Hopkins University will present a paper entitled "Eliminating Bloodstream Infections: Influences of Nurse Turnover and Teamwork Activities," at the 2008 Interdisciplinary Research Group on Nursing Issues (IRGNI) Interest Group Meeting in conjunction with the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting.
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Panel Presentation
INQRI Grantees Shoshanna Sofaer, DrPh, Paula Edwards, PhD, and Susan Beck, PhD, RN, will give a panel presentation on their INQRI projects at the AcademyHealth meeting in Washington, DC. Senior Program Officer Lori Melichar will moderate the panel and INQRI leaders Mary Naylor and Mark Pauly will serve as discussants.
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