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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research is collaborating with 17 professionals from NIH Offices, Centers, and Institutes and other U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ agencies to form the NIH Adherence Research Network. Learn about the Network and how a CERTs principal investigator became the first presenter in its Distinguished Speaker Series. The Brigham and Women’s Hospital Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT), is featured in this first in a series of articles about what each CERT is doing to improve patient safety and reduce medication errors. The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) CERT, the CERT Scientific Forum, and the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) are featured in this first in a series of articles about the CERT centers and unique partners who help disseminate their work. Can technology be harnessed to improve the quality of health care and reduce human errors? This probing question was the focus of a documentary that aired on the Discovery™ Channel in April and May of 2012. David Bates, M.D., principal investigator of the Brigham and Women’s Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT), was featured earlier this year as a leading researcher in the field of health information technology (HIT) in a Health Science Channel video and a New York Times article. The 2012 Recommendations for the Use of Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs and Biologic Agents in the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis were recently issued by the American College of Rheumatology. Learn about the update and the role that the UAB CERT Center played in its development. 2012 Recommendations for the Treatment of Maladaptive Aggression in Youth (T-MAY) were recently published in the journal Pediatrics. Learn about the recommendations and the Rutgers CERT Center role in their development. Due for release later this year, new statistical software provides automated screening of large numbers of drugs and adverse events using simultaneous Poisson prediction limits, a methodology that was originally developed for large-scale environmental testing applications. The National Patient Safety Foundation featured the University of Illinois-Chicago CERT in the Research News section of its Web site on March 19, 2012. The article reviews the Center's research focus and briefly describes tools in development that can be applied in practice and will be distributed for free. From clinical guidelines to online education tools, the Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) are finding ways to help the nation’s population use drugs and other therapies as safely, appropriately, and effectively as possible. Read this update on recent program changes and new projects and collaborations. This 33-minute patient education program provides patients with basic information about how to take medications safely. In this commentary published in the Harvard Health Letter, the half-dozen broad principles associated with the judicious use of medications ("conservative prescribing") originally proposed by authors of a paper published in JAMA in 2009, are revised to take into account more of the patient's point of view. Results from a study by conducted by the Houston CERT fueled the debate over the efficacy of acupuncture. The study compared traditional Chinese acupuncture with sham acupuncture and also evaluated whether the acupuncturist communication style affected outcomes. The Wall Street Journal ran an article about the impact the American Heart Association's (AHA) Get With the Guidelines (GWTG) program is having and its goals for helping improve care and prevent further hospitalizations for cardiac patients. During his speech at the annual American Medical Association (AMA) meeting on June 15, 2009, President Obama quoted a paper written by investigators at the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), home of the Duke Cardiovascular Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT). In this study, clinical pharmacists collaborated with physicians to manage patients with uncontrolled high blood pressure. In this research project, the Cincinnati Children's Hospital CERT showed how research data can be efficiently integrated into everyday practice so that improved patient care and outcomes can be realized more quickly.
