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Appendix A: Committee Membership and Study Approach
Pages 329-340

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From page 329...
... , is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management in The Tohns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is Director of The Tohns Hopkins University Health Services Research and Development Center and Director of the Tohns Hopkins and University of Maryland Center for Research on Services for Severe Mental Illness.
From page 330...
... quality of patient caregiving; and (3) instrument development and testing, including measures of patient satisfaction, job satisfaction of nurses, and anticipated turnover of nursing staff.
From page 331...
... He chaired a National Research Council committee addressing issues of confidentiality of health records on the national information infrastructure, and served on the Board of Directors of the American Medical Informatics Association and as President of that organization during 1998 and 1999. Mary Lou de Leon Siantz, R.N., Ph.D., F.A.A.N., is Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies and Director of the Milagros Center of Excellence in Migrant Health in Washington, D.C.
From page 332...
... She has published many scholarly papers and research abstracts and contributed to numerous books. She consults with the Strategic Planning Committees for the Pacific Northwest Hispanic Health Agenda and the East Coast Migrant Council, developing research initiatives.
From page 333...
... Hickam, M.D., M.P.H., is Professor in the Department of Medicine of the Oregon Health and Science University and a staff physician at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is board certified in internal medicine and completed a fellowship in health services research.
From page 334...
... Previously, he was Research Director for the Center on Aging and Geriatric Medicine Research Training Program Director. He has over 20 years of experience in health services research, with particular emphasis on quality of care in nursing homes, subacute settings, and home health care.
From page 335...
... She also has studied organizational work environment issues in multisite studies of the critical care work environment and was a member of the technical advisory board of the recent national study of nurse staffing and patient outcomes in hospitals, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
From page 336...
... His current research interests include the management aspects of health care delivery, operations research, operations management, and issues of global competition. He is former President of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, and serves in an editorial capacity on Production andt Operations Managemeet, International Transactions in Operational Research, Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science, Health Services Management Research, and the Health Care Management Sciences Journal.
From page 337...
... Her areas of expertise include high-reliability organizations and human and organizational error. She has published extensively on such topics as research and management strategies to improve patient safety, the causes and prevention of catastrophic organizational errors, systems theory and how it can be applied to maximizing patient safety, patient safety as an organizational systems issue lessons from a variety of industries, design and management of high-reliability organizations, risk mitigation in largescale systems, decision support, the development of technology over time, and the relationship of technology to organizational structure and other .
From page 338...
... Those providing testimony included Barbara Blakeney, President, American Nurses Association; Linda Burnes Boltin, Dr.P.H., American Academy of Nursing; Kathleen Long, Ph.D., President, American Association of Colleges of Nursing; Phil Authier, President, American Organization of Nurse Executives; Eileen Zungolo, Ed.D., President, National League for Nursing; Jeanne Surdo, Secretary-Treasurer of United American Nurses; Martha Baker, President, Service Employees International Union, Local 1991; Katherine Cox, Policy Analyst, American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees; Gerry Shea, Assistant to the President for Government Affairs, AFL-CIO; Jim Bentley, Senior Vice President for Strategic Policy Planning, American Hospital Association; Steven Chies, Vice Chair, American Health Care Association; Robyn Stone, Ph.D., Executive Director, Institute for the Future of Aging Services, an affiliate of the American Association of Homes
From page 339...
... The committee also commissioned nine papers to provide background information for its deliberations and to synthesize the evidence on particular issues. The authors and their papers were as follows: Julie Sochalski, Ph.D., "The Nursing Workforce: Profile, Trends, Projections"; Barbara Mark, Ph.D., "The Work of Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses, and Nurses Aides in Acute Care Hospitals"; Barbara Bowers, Ph.D., "The Work of Nurses and Nurse Aides in Long Term Care Facilities"; Karen Martin, "The Work of Nurses and Nursing Assistants in Home Care, Public Health, and Other Community Settings"; Ann Rogers Ph.D., "Work Hour Regulation in Safety-Sensitive Industries"; Gail Ingersoll, EdD, and Madeline Schmitt, Ph.D., "Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Team Functioning, and Patient Safety"; Ann Hendrich, "Evidence-based Design of Nursing Workspace in Hospitals"; Pascale Carayon, Ph.D., Carla Alvarado, Ph.D., and Ann Hundt, Ph.D., "Reducing Workload and Increasing Patient Safety Through Work and Workspace Design"; and Murat Bayiz, "Work and Workload Measurements in Nurse Staffing Models." In undertaking its work, the committee focused predominantly on nursing care delivered in acute care hospitals and inpatient nursing facilities, because these are the settings in which the greatest amount of evidence exists about the nature of threats to patient safety and possible remedies in the work environment of nurses.
From page 340...
... 340 KEEPING PATIENTS SAFE registered nurse that may have implications for nurse performance in the workplace. As tempting, important, and deserving of study as these issues were, they were beyond the considerable charge given to the committee by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.


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