Brigham and Women's doctor wins patient safety award
A Brigham and Women's physician-researcher is being honored for her work advancing safety and quality for outpatients.
Dr. Tejal Gandhi has won a 2009 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award in the research category from the National Quality Forum and The Joint Commission, national organizations that set quality standards in hospitals and other health care settings.
Executive director of quality and safety at Brigham and Women's and director of patient safety for Partners Healthcare, Gandhi also practices internal medicine. Her research has focused on using information technology to increase safety for outpatients, with an emphasis on preventing harm caused by medication errors. She led a large study on drug errors in chemotherapy given to outpatients and has analyzed the impact of computerized prescription orders on primary care.
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