Elevance健康基金会首届患者安全奖揭晓：四家机构共获400万美元 攻用药安全、防跌倒与健康素养
Elevance健康基金会10月14日在Indianapolis宣布首届「患者安全奖」获奖名单，四家机构将合计获得400万美元资助。该奖通过基金会的「社区行动领导力」（CAL）计划推出，资助方向为用药安全、防跌倒与健康素养三个领域，重点面向服务不足人群。
四家获奖机构及方向为：Care Synergy旗下的CAPABLE国家中心，方向为预防跌倒；纽约大学格罗斯曼医学院，方向为消除用药错误；公共卫生研究所旗下的群体健康创新实验室，方向为提升健康素养；帕克兰临床创新中心，方向为消除用药错误。今年早些时候，全美多家非营利机构、医疗机构与患者倡导组织提交了各自的患者安全方案参与评选。
基金会援引的数据显示，全美每年有超过150万人因药物相关事件前往急诊，医院内每年发生的患者跌倒事件最高接近100万起。Elevance健康首席卫生官尚塔努·阿格拉沃尔表示，患者安全是高质量医疗的基础，但仍有太多人遭受可预防的伤害。
纽约大学格罗斯曼医学院的方案名为SAFER-Med，计划用超级智能数字技术在患者出院回家后的数日内，以患者自己的语言核对他们是否理解用药说明，如发现误解，可在造成伤害前通知护士跟进。该医学院所属纽约大学朗格尼健康系统的德文·曼恩医生表示，出院环节是公认的用药安全薄弱点。
Elevance健康基金会是Elevance健康公司的慈善分支，长期资助方向包括母婴健康、行为健康与「食物即药物」等领域。基金会表示，获奖方案详情可通过患者安全奖官方网站查询。
Elevance Health Foundation Announces First Patient Safety Prize: Four Organizations to Share $4 Million
The Elevance Health Foundation announced the winners of its inaugural Patient Safety Prize in Indianapolis on October 14. Four organizations will collectively receive $4 million through the foundation's Community Action Leadership (CAL) program, funding work in three areas: medication safety, fall prevention and health literacy, with a focus on underserved populations.
The four awardees are Care Synergy's CAPABLE National Center, for fall prevention; NYU Grossman School of Medicine, for eliminating medication errors; the Population Health Innovation Lab, a program of the Public Health Institute, for improving health literacy; and the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation, for eliminating medication errors. Earlier this year, nonprofits, healthcare institutions and patient advocacy groups from across the country presented their patient safety proposals for the prize.
According to figures cited by the foundation, more than 1.5 million Americans visit the emergency room every year due to drug events, and up to nearly one million patient falls occur in hospitals annually. Shantanu Agrawal, M.D., chief health officer of Elevance Health, said patient safety is fundamental to high-quality healthcare, yet too many people still experience preventable harm.
NYU Grossman School of Medicine's project, SAFER-Med, will use SI-enabled digital technology to check, in the days after discharge and in the patient's own language, whether patients understood their medication guidelines at home, so that any misunderstanding can reach a nurse before it becomes harm. Devin M. Mann, M.D., of NYU Langone Health, said hospital discharge is a well-documented weak point for medication safety.
The Elevance Health Foundation is the philanthropic arm of Elevance Health Inc., with long-standing focus areas including maternal-infant health, behavioral health and food as medicine. The foundation said details of this year's awardees are available on the Patient Safety Prize website.
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图片来源：纽约东河畔的纽约大学朗格尼医学中心与基梅尔馆黄昏全景（2018年6月摄，获奖机构纽约大学格罗斯曼医学院所属医疗系统）· Ajay Suresh 摄，CC BY 2.0（维基共享资源） / NYU Langone Medical Center and the Kimmel Pavilion on New York's East River at dusk, photographed June 2018; the medical center is home to awardee NYU Grossman School of Medicine · Ajay Suresh, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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