SAEMF/ED Benchmarking Alliance Clinical Operations Research Grant - $50,000
"Indicators and Modeling of Workload Saturation in Pediatric Emergency Departments"
Pediatric emergency departments (PEDs) are under growing pressure due to community hospital closures and the increasing complexity of pediatric care. Currently, tools that monitor when PEDs become overcrowded are not accurate in predicting staffing and care needs. Through interviews, observations, and simulation modeling, this project will build a new model to measure PED workload to improve care delivery and guide resource planning.
Recipient(s)
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Christopher E. Gaw, MD, MPH, MBE
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
"Indicators and Modeling of Workload Saturation in Pediatric Emergency Departments"
Christopher Gaw, MD, MPH, MBE, is an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and an attending physician in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Gaw earned his medical degree from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and completed his pediatrics residency and pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
He is a health systems researcher whose work examines how injury risk and system stress influence performance in pediatric emergency and prehospital care. His research aims to translate epidemiologic and health services findings into safer clinical practice, policy, and prevention strategies.
Dr. Gaw is the recipient of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation and Emergency Department Benchmarking Alliance Clinical Operations Research Grant, through which he is conducting research to identify workload indicators and models system strain in pediatric emergency departments.