U-M/VA team awarded AHRQ grant to enhance cognition and communication and patient safety among care providers

Sanjay Saint, M.D., M.P.H., professor of internal medicine, along with Amy Cohn, Ph.D., associate professor of engineering, Jennifer Meddings, M.D., assistant professor of general medicine, and Vineet Chopra, M.D., M.S., assistant professor of general medicine, will research ways to improve the delivery of inpatient care by cross-linking investigators from diverse disciplines--including engineering, medicine, nursing, architecture and design and computer science. Their research project, "Enhancing Patient Safety through Cognition & Communication: The M-Safety Lab," will look at ways to implement novel methods to enhance cognition and communication among care providers in order to reduce hospital-acquired complications.