The major goal of Identifying and Reducing Errors in Perioperative Anesthesia Medication Delivery (OR SMART) is to engineer reductions in anesthesia medication errors in operating rooms. This study uses a systems’ engineering approach to improve decision making, reduce procedural and technological vulnerabilities and improve the work environment and culture. A highly experienced multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, scientists and engineers is using a combination of innovative techniques to address this threat to patient safety in the most comprehensive study of anesthesia medication safety systems ever conducted.
Sponsor: Agency for Healthcare Research Quality
Project period: 2018 – 2021
AIM 1. Explore Solutions to Failures in Diagnosis, Selection and Prescribing of Intraoperative Anesthesia Medication.
AIM 2: Develop methods to reduce failures in the preparation, administration and recording of intraoperative anesthesia medication
AIM 3: Understand and improve workspace design and safety culture to influences anesthesia medication selection and delivery.
