Our Research

We study health system reorganization and policy changes and aim to produce research evidence to improve the quality of health care, the power of policy on hospital organizational traits and context on racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in health care outcomes.

Nurses4All Initiative at University of Pennsylvania Drives Evidence-Based Change in Nursing

Nurses4All, a groundbreaking initiative spearheaded by the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research (CHOPR), continues to lead the charge in generating crucial evidence on nursing practices and their profound impact on healthcare outcomes.

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    Dr. Margo Brooks Carthon is the recipient of a Hillman Foundation Grant to further expand THRIVE.

    THRIVE is a novel, equity-centered approach that provides whole-person care to Medicaid patients transitioning from hospital to home. A $300,000 Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation Catalyst Award will provide the funds to advance the promising intervention and brainchild of Dr. Brooks Carthon. 

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    Karen Lasater, PhD, RN, Postdoctoral Fellow

    Lasater Receives Funding for Groundbreaking Study

    Dr. Karen Lasater’s new study, “Learning from Hospital Preparedness during COVID: Chronically Under-Resourced Nurses and Patient Safety,” has garnered coveted funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 

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    CHOPR Study Links Inadequate Nurse Staffing to Higher COVID-19 Death Rates

    The new study led by CHOPR Founding Director, Dr. Linda Aiken, shows hospitals with a history of inadequate nurse staffing or nurse support had more negative patient outcomes, including deaths, from COVID-19. 

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Recent CHOPR Studies

BMJ Open

Explaining racial disparities in surgical survival: a tapered match analysis of patient and hospital factors.
Lasater KB, Rosenbaum PR, Aiken LH, Brooks-Carthon JM, Kelz RR, Reiter JG, Silber JH, McHugh MD.

Hospital nurse staffing and sepsis protocol compliance and outcomes among patients with sepsis in the USA: a multistate cross-sectional analysis. Andrew M. Dierkes, Linda H. Aiken, Douglas Sloane, et al.

Nursing Outlook

A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study of Nurses Immediately Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Implications for Action. Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane, Matthew D. McHugh, Colleen A. Pogue, Karen B. Lasater

Nursing Research

Racial disparities in stroke readmissions reduced in hospitals with better nurse staffing. J. Margo Brooks Carthon, Heather Brom, Matthew M. McHugh, et al.

JAMA Health Forum

Physician and Nurse Well-Being and Preferred Interventions to Address Burnout in Hospital Practice.
Aiken LH, Lasater KB, Sloan DM, Pogue CA, Rosenbaum KE, Muir J, McHugh MD, and the US Clinician Wellbeing Study Consortium.

Journal of Clinical Nursing

Access to post‐acute care services reduces emergency department utilisation among individuals insured by Medicaid: An observational study. Heather Brom, Colleen A. Pogue (…), J. Margo Brooks Carthon

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Care processes and racial/ethnic differences in family reports of end‐of‐life care among Veterans: A mediation analysis. Ann Kutney‐Lee, (…), J. Margo Brooks Carthon

Journal of Nurse Management

The association between hospital nursing resource profiles and nurse and patient outcomes. Eileen T. Lake, Kathryn Riman, CS Lee