Foster Health Laboratory
The Foster Health Lab’s mission is to improve the health and participation of children with medical complexity and disability in a family-centered manner.
The Lab’s methods span traditional health services research, health care policy analysis, quality measurement development, and health service innovation and implementation.
In particular, the lab focuses on improving how home and community-based services benefit patients and their families. To achieve this, the lab partners with families from project design through implementation.
Research Highlights
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HOMeVent4Kids: HOME-BASED OPTIMIZATION OF MECHANICAL VENTILATION FOR CHILDREN |
Funders: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health and Children’s Research Fund Junior Board (CRFJB) Research Scholar Award
Description: The goals of this grant are to understand the patient, family caregiver, and health system level factors that affect how long children need to use home ventilation (breathing machines) and to develop and pilot a feasible, family-centered, and clinical useful remote monitoring system for in-home ventilation management.
FamilyCircle: CHILDREN WITH MEDICAL COMPLEXITY R ESEARCH COHORT WITH LONGITUDINAL EVALUATION
Funder: National Institutes of Health
Description: In collaboration with the University of Wisconsin and 8 other pediatric medical centers across the country, the Foster Lab is conducting a study to better understand the experiences of 900 caregivers of children with special healthcare needs.
The SafeCare@Home4Kids Learning Lab: DESIGNING SAFER HEALTHCARE AT HOME FOR CHILDREN
Funder: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Description: The major goal of this project to understand how family caregivers and home nurses currently identify, communicate, and prevent healthcare safety errors and adverse events at home.
Understanding Family Priorities for Medical Product Design and Innovation at Home for Children with Medical Complexity
Funder: Ann & Robert H. Lurie's Children's Hospital of Chicago, Stanely Manne Children's Research Institute Innoivate2Impact Program, Health@Home Research Initiative, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Description: The goal of this project is to understand what families need for medical products like devices, equipment, or supplies to improve from care of chidlren with medical complexity at home.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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Principal Investigator
Lab Members
Leah West, MS, CCLS
Cameron Cooper, MS
Peter Walsh
Connor Karwowski
