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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