Dr. Patricia DykesSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Dykes was an early innovator in development of clinical pathways as a decision support approach and subsequently in integration of clinical pathways into electronic health records as part of a multi-faceted patient-centered interdisciplinary approach to enhancing guideline-based care.

Her first two books on the topic were published in 1997 and 1998 and subsequently translated into Japanese and German and use widely to guide content standardization efforts in the U.S. Asia and in Europe.As principal investigator of an interdisciplinary research project funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Dr.

Dykes led a team that established a link between a standardized fall risk scale with individualized tailored interventions to prevent patient falls in hospitals. This was the first randomized controlled trial to document use of health information technologies to establish a linkage between fall risk assessment tailored interventions and decreased patient falls in acute hospital settings.