Rate My Professor Virginia Mumford

Mumford's research applies health economics, econometrics, and implementation science to evaluate complex interventions in health services, with focuses on patient safety, clinical governance such as hospital accreditation, paediatric medication errors, virtual care, electronic medication management systems, point-of-care testing in rural settings, and genetic testing for motor neurone disease and refractory epilepsy. She is a NSW Health EMC Fellow evaluating the Delirium Clinical Care Standard in acute care. Mumford has produced 59 research outputs, including 26 peer-reviewed papers since 2011, with 8 as first author. Notable publications include "Harm to Children from Prescribing and Administration Errors in Acute Care: A Multidisciplinary Panel Assessment" (2025, Drug Safety), "Do Patient Safety Incident Investigations Align with Systems Thinking? An Analysis of Contributing Factors and Recommendations" (2025, BMJ Quality & Safety), "Co-producing Patient-Reported Experience Measures with People with Intellectual Disability to Improve Healthcare Quality and Outcomes: The 'Listen to Me' Project Protocol" (2025, Health Expectations), and "Associations between Double-Checking and Medication Administration Errors: A Direct Observational Study of Paediatric Inpatients" (2021, BMJ Quality & Safety; Wiley Top Cited Article 2020-2021). Her contributions have been recognized with the 2022 Macquarie Business School Impact Competition award for evaluating medical tests, devices, and procedures, and Editor's Choice for a 2024 paper in Australian Health Review.