
Andrea K. Morrison, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Co-Director Children’s Wisconsin Health Literacy Task Force; Medical Director of Health Literacy
Locations
- Children's Wisconsin - Milwaukee Campus
- 8915 W. Connell Ct.
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Education
Residency, Pediatrics, University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, 2010
Fellowship, Pediatrics Emergency Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, 2013
Research Interests
Dr. Morrison is a Pediatric Emergency Medicine physician and health literacy researcher and advocate. Her overarching career goal is to better understand and impact the pathway linking low health literacy to poor health outcomes, including increased ED utilization. Her vision is to transform healthcare communication to help children and families understand and make decisions about their health including when to seek emergency care.
Her research has focused on the effects of parent health literacy and the decision to seek non-urgent emergency care for children that are otherwise healthy. Dr. Morrison also has interest in ED use by children with chronic illness, including asthma and sickle cell disease. She is studying the impact of health literacy-related interventions on ED use in patients with chronic illness. She has published work regarding health literacy and ED utilization, health literacy measurement in parents, and health literacy and clinical care in the ED. She is involved in health literacy clinical efforts at Children’s Wisconsin including development of educational materials for caregivers and patients and serves as the Co-Director of the Children’s Wisconsin Health Literacy Task Force.
Publications
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(Morrison AK, Gibson C, Higgins C, Gutzeit M.) Pediatr Qual Saf. 2021 Jul-Aug;6(4):e425 PMID: 34235353 PMCID: PMC8225367 07/09/2021
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(Morrison AK, Nimmer M, Ferguson CC.) Acad Pediatr. 2021 07;21(5):868-876 PMID: 33221494 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85097795900 11/23/2020
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(Gerald LB, Gerald JK, VanBuren JM, Lowe A, Guthrie CC, Klein EJ, Morrison A, Startup E, Denninghoff K.) Pilot and Feasibility Studies. December 2021;7(1) SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85115729976 12/01/2021
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(Lepley BE, Brousseau DC, May MF, Morrison AK.) Pediatr Emerg Care. 2020 Apr;36(4):e192-e198 PMID: 30624425 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85082432105 01/10/2019
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Health Literacy: Implications for Child Health.
(Morrison AK, Glick A, Yin HS.) Pediatr Rev. 2019 Jun;40(6):263-277 PMID: 31152099 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85066956979 06/04/2019
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Seeking Care for Pediatric Illness: Health System Perspective.
(Morrison AK, Brousseau DC.) Acad Pediatr. 2019 May - Jun;19(4):355-356 PMID: 30904583 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85064323764 03/25/2019
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Rapid cycle testing drives improved communication and satisfaction using in-person survey.
(Kuehnel NA, Morrison AK, Ferguson CC.) BMJ Open Qual. 2019;8(3):e000504 PMID: 31799442 PMCID: PMC6863655 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85084890784 12/05/2019
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Using Quality Improvement to Change Testing Practices for Community-acquired Pneumonia.
(Rogers AJ, Lye PS, Ciener DA, Ren B, Kuhn EM, Morrison AK.) Pediatr Qual Saf. 2018 Sep-Oct;3(5):e105 PMID: 30584632 PMCID: PMC6221590 12/26/2018
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Health Information Preferences of Parents in a Pediatric Emergency Department.
(Drent AM, Brousseau DC, Morrison AK.) Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2018 05;57(5):519-527 PMID: 28901159 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85043475659 09/14/2017
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(Morrison AK, Myrvik MP, Brousseau DC, Drendel AL, Scott JP, Visotcky A, Panepinto JA.) Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2018 04;65(4) PMID: 29230919 PMCID: PMC5821544 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85042281352 12/13/2017
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Why Parents Seek Care for Acute Illness in the Clinic or the ED: The Role of Health Literacy.
(May M, Brousseau DC, Nelson DA, Flynn KE, Wolf MS, Lepley B, Morrison AK.) Acad Pediatr. 2018 04;18(3):289-296 PMID: 28625711 PMCID: PMC5732897 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85028331804 06/20/2017