Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards Announced
by Barbara Kram, Editor | October 01, 2008
Dennis S. O'Leary, M.D.
is among honorees
is among honorees
The National Quality Forum (NQF) and The Joint Commission have announced the 2008 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. Honorees were selected in all four award categories. This year's awards also feature a new honorary award for individual achievement.
The honorees, by award category, are as follows:
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT
Michael R. Cohen, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntington Valley, PA
Dr. Cohen is being recognized for his lifelong professional commitment to promoting safe medication use and a safe medication delivery system. He has routinely challenged legislators and regulators, practitioners, professional organizations and pharmaceutical manufacturers to recognize their responsibility to eliminate preventable morbidity and mortality due to medication errors. As the founder of the Institute for Safe Medications Practices and co-founder of the voluntary and confidential Medication Error Reporting Program, he has championed improvements in drug naming, labeling, packaging, delivery systems and regulation and has influenced changes to hundreds of drug products and the removal of others. In addition, Dr. Cohen has written prolifically on the subject of medication error prevention and has served on numerous national and international committees.
RESEARCH
The RAND Corporation and University of California at Los AngelesSchool of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
The RAND Corporation and the UCLA School of Medicine are being honored for the development of a comprehensive set of measures, known as the ACOVE (Assessing the Care of Vulnerable Elders) project, intended to assess and improve the medical care provided to vulnerable elderly patients. This assessment, which was developed as a joint project of RAND and Pfizer Inc., forms the basis for implementing tested interventions known to improve patient care and safety for older adults at increased risk of functional decline or death. The ACOVE project represents a significant body of research that has resulted in improved patient care and safety for this rapidly growing at-risk population with unique healthcare needs and preferences.
INNOVATION IN PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL
National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention, Rockville, MD
This organization is being recognized for its substantive body of work to promote medication error reporting and prevention through the broad dissemination of Council work products. These products include the internationally recognized definition of a medication error and other standardized definitions, the index for categorizing medication errors, the taxonomy of medication errors, development and dissemination of multiple sets of recommendations spanning the medication use process, the conduct of two national conferences addressing the use of bar coding and the non-standardized use of suffixes in drug names and many other critical work products that influence the safe use of medications. The Council is comprised of representatives from 24 national organizations who have worked collaboratively over the last 10 years to accomplish the objectives of the Council.
The honorees, by award category, are as follows:
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT
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Michael R. Cohen, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Huntington Valley, PA
Dr. Cohen is being recognized for his lifelong professional commitment to promoting safe medication use and a safe medication delivery system. He has routinely challenged legislators and regulators, practitioners, professional organizations and pharmaceutical manufacturers to recognize their responsibility to eliminate preventable morbidity and mortality due to medication errors. As the founder of the Institute for Safe Medications Practices and co-founder of the voluntary and confidential Medication Error Reporting Program, he has championed improvements in drug naming, labeling, packaging, delivery systems and regulation and has influenced changes to hundreds of drug products and the removal of others. In addition, Dr. Cohen has written prolifically on the subject of medication error prevention and has served on numerous national and international committees.
RESEARCH
The RAND Corporation and University of California at Los AngelesSchool of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
The RAND Corporation and the UCLA School of Medicine are being honored for the development of a comprehensive set of measures, known as the ACOVE (Assessing the Care of Vulnerable Elders) project, intended to assess and improve the medical care provided to vulnerable elderly patients. This assessment, which was developed as a joint project of RAND and Pfizer Inc., forms the basis for implementing tested interventions known to improve patient care and safety for older adults at increased risk of functional decline or death. The ACOVE project represents a significant body of research that has resulted in improved patient care and safety for this rapidly growing at-risk population with unique healthcare needs and preferences.
INNOVATION IN PATIENT SAFETY AND QUALITY AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL
National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention, Rockville, MD
This organization is being recognized for its substantive body of work to promote medication error reporting and prevention through the broad dissemination of Council work products. These products include the internationally recognized definition of a medication error and other standardized definitions, the index for categorizing medication errors, the taxonomy of medication errors, development and dissemination of multiple sets of recommendations spanning the medication use process, the conduct of two national conferences addressing the use of bar coding and the non-standardized use of suffixes in drug names and many other critical work products that influence the safe use of medications. The Council is comprised of representatives from 24 national organizations who have worked collaboratively over the last 10 years to accomplish the objectives of the Council.
