CDC awards $226M to 5 academic centers for patient safety efforts: 5 notes

As part of the Prevention Epicenters Program, the CDC is granting $26 million to support five academic medical centers' research to improve patient safety.

Here are five notes:

1. The CDC and the Prevention Epicenters devise and test various approaches aimed at preventing infections and enhancing patient safety.

2. Through the $26 million donation, the CDC extended the Prevention Epicenters program through 2020.

3. The following medical centers received donations:
•    Chicago Prevention and Intervention Epicenter at Rush University Medical Center and Cook County (Ill.) Health and Hospitals System
•    Durhman, N.C.-based Duke University and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill
•    Massachusetts-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and University of California, Irvine
•    University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
•    Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and BJC Healthcare Prevention Epicenter

4. The Epicenters will conduct research on areas including:
•    Evaluating how antibiotics disrupt ICU patients' microbiome
•    Learning which factors predict which patients in ICUs antibiotic-resistant germs will colonize
•    Testing various strategies for regional approaches to both prevent infection as well as track antibiotic-resistant germs transmission
•    Evaluate the best strategies to disinfect patients' skin to prevent infections in ICU patients
•    Learn how microbiome restoration can treat infections which antibiotic-resistant germs cause
•    Detecting outbreaks automatically using lab data

5. Prevention Epicenters have created and tested strategies for infection control in healthcare facilities for almost 20 years.

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