Harkness Project Title: The Effect of the Implementation of an Electronic Health Record on Nursing-Sensitive Patient Outcomes

Mentor: Murray N. Ross, Ph.D.

Placement: Kaiser Permanente

Biography at time of Harkness Fellowship: Dawn Dowding, RGN, Ph.D., a 2009–10 Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice, is a senior lecturer in clinical decision-making at the Hull York Medical School and department of health sciences, University of York. Past positions include program leader for a nationally funded research unit in Scotland, as well as lecturer and research positions at the Universities of Stirling (Scotland) and Surrey (England). Dowding’s research interests focus on clinical decision-making, including studies to develop decision-support tools and to evaluate the effectiveness of computerized decision support in nursing. She is joint leader of the Health Care Decision Making Research Group, within the department of health sciences at the University of York, and has served as principle investigator on a number of Department of Health and Scottish Executive grants. She is the author/editor of two books on clinical decision-making in nursing and has over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles. She holds a Ph.D. in psychology and nursing studies from the University of Surrey and is a registered nurse.

Current Position: Professor, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds (Updated August 2010)

Email: Dawn.Dowding@leeds.ac.uk

Harkness-Related Publications

Dowding, D.W., Turley, M. & Garrido, T. (2011). The impact of an electronic health record on nurse sensitive patient outcomes: An interrupted time series analysis. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.