In late 2001 the New York State Department of Health and UAlbany’s School of Public Health were awarded a three-year contract by the federal Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality to reduce medical errors by 50 percent in five years. Hannan was charged with overseeing all of the analyses and evaluations related to the project, which will identify risk-reduction strategies and foster hospital demonstration projects to test and refine quality care initiatives.

Articles describing this work have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, Medical Care, the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, the Journal of Trauma, Health Services Research, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Surgery, the American Heart Journal, and various other leading publications.

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