Summaries of Independent Scientist (K) Awards

Moore, Carlton

Institution: Mount Sinai School of Medicine of New York University (NYU), and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Grant Title: Discharge Summary Availability and Discontinuity Errors
Grant Number:  K08 HS14020
Duration: 4 years (2006-2010)
Total Award: $505,000

Project Description: This project has three main aims:

1. Conduct a nationally representative survey of hospitals to identify the current systems used to communicate hospital discharge information and their perceived efficacy.
2. Perform a time series cohort study to measure and compare the frequency of discontinuity errors that occur after hospitalization before and after implementation of a Web-based system to disseminate discharge summaries to outpatients primary care physicians (PCPs).
3. Take advantage of a natural experiment to perform an interrupted time series cohort study to measure and compare the frequency of medical errors before and after implementation of an enhanced computerized discharge summary system.

Career Goals: Dr. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.  Prior to this appointment in 2007, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.  He received his M.D. from Cornell University Medical School and served his residency in Internal Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Moore was also a Fellow in Medical Informatics at Mount Sinai.  The grantee would like to become an independent clinical health services researcher with a focus on medical informatics.

Progress to Date: Dr. Moore has received some of the completed questionnaires from a random sample of physician members of the Society for Hospital Medicine. He is in the process of conducting a pilot study to assess the extent to which a web-based personal health record can be used by discharged patients and their outpatient physicians to facilitate the transition from the hospital to the outpatient setting.

Future Plans: The grantee will continue receiving responses to the questionnaires and present preliminary findings at the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Enrollment of patients in the pilot study will continue.

Highlights and Specific Accomplishments:

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Medical Faculty Development Award, 2003.
• Newman Research Award, 1999.

K-Generated Publications: None thus far.

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