A team of faculty from the University of Florida colleges of pharmacy and medicine led by Rachel Reise, Pharm.D., and Eric Rosenberg, M.D., has received a 2024 UF Health Shands Board Quasi Endowment award. Rosenberg, a professor and associate dean for continuing medical education in the UF College of Medicine, and UF College of Pharmacy Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy Rachel Reise are spearheading efforts to improve the quality of both ambulatory preoperative internal medicine consultation and perioperative medication reconciliation at UF Health Shands hospitals.
Each year, the UF Health Shands Board Quasi Endowment program awards a series of grants to enhance the missions of both UF Health Shands Hospitals and UF’s health sciences colleges. Reise’s team was awarded $16,000 to build a novel clinical registry with automated data reporting from EPIC electronic health records in order to achieve more timely monitoring of patients, enhanced medication management, and real-time tracking of patient outcomes.
This interdisciplinary effort is poised to provide preliminary data to support interventional studies aimed at preventing perioperative medication issues, decreasing rates of medication documentation errors, improving uptake of perioperative medication recommendations, and optimizing outcomes for medically complex patients undergoing surgery. The registry will capture each patient’s clinical characteristics, allowing providers to optimize care for high-risk patients by ensuring continuous medication management and tracking surgery-related outcomes.
“This project is another example of UF faculty in internal medicine and pharmacy collaborating to study ways to improve patient safety,” Reise said. “The data we will collect from the initial stages of this project can demonstrate how a clinical registry such as this can positively impact patient outcomes. Our long-term goal with this project is to eventually look into building a predictive algorithm using machine learning to more effectively assess patients and identify their risk for complications, therefore enhancing our ability to better manage their care.”