Advancing Patient Safety for Antipsychotic-Treated Children:
Examining State Implementation of Safe Use Practices
Greta Bushnell, PhD, MSPH
Jim Lloyd, JD, MPP
Tuesday, January 31, at 12 pm ET
Greta Bushnell is a pharmacoepidemiologist and an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Rutgers School of Public Health. Jim Lloyd is a Research Specialist at the Center for Health Services Research at the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research at Rutgers University. Together, they’ll discuss an ongoing, mixed methods study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality that examines the prevalence of antipsychotic medication use among Medicaid-enrolled children and identifies the implementation of state safe-use initiatives for these medications and the impact of these initiatives on safe-use practices.