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Anuj K. Dalal, MD, of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Hospital Medicine Unit, was awarded a CRICO Research Grant in the 2021 RFA cycle and an R01 Grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
CRICO grants fund vital patient safety research to improve the quality and safety of patient care. Dalal was awarded the CRICO Research Grant for his project, “Real-time Inpatient Diagnostic Error Prediction & Evaluation,” which aims to use advanced statistical techniques to develop and implement a predictive model of diagnostic error for in the acute care setting.
AHRQ supports research to improve the effectiveness, quality, and accessibility of health care. The R01 grant was awarded to Dalal’s project entitled, “Real-time symptom monitoring using electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs) to prevent adverse events during care transitions.” The objective of this project is to design and evaluate EHR-integrated digital health apps that apply advanced predictive approaches using validated PROs and EHR data to proactively monitor and identify at-risk patients with multiple chronic conditions transitioning home from the hospital.
Dalal is an associate physician in the Hospital Medicine Unit and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He is focused on designing, developing, implementing, and evaluating novel digital health solutions to improve the quality, safety, and equity of care in acute and transitional settings. Dalal is also the director of the AHRQ-funded Patient Safety Learning Laboratory focused on improving safety of diagnosis and therapy in acute care.
The CRICO insurance program, a leader in medical professional liability for more than 40 years, protects clinicians and organizations in the Harvard medical community. AHRQ is a lead federal agency dedicated to improving safety and quality of care in the U.S. health care system, and its goal is to aid Americans, health care providers, and policymakers to make informed decisions.
