Translating Patient Safety Research Into Clinical Practice

摘要

There is pressing need to make patient safety research more relevant to clinicians and decisionmakers. The RE-AIM framework of Research, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance is one approach investigators can use to assess a study's potential for translation from research to clinical practice. In this paper, we show how the RE-AIM approach is being used to evaluate a pharmacy alert intervention designed to detect and correct medication prescribing errors for all patients prescribed medications in a large health maintenance organization (HM0). In the RE-AIM framework, research is assessed by calculating the participation rate and evaluating the degree to which the patients enrolled in the study are representative of the larger patient population (i.e., the 'representativeness' of the sample).