The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is awarding $10 million in research grants to support efforts to develop and test innovative approaches to reducing infections in healthcare settings, according to a news release.
The academic medical centers include Cook County Health & Health System, Rush University Medical Center, Duke University, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, University of Pennsylvania and Washington University. The innovative strategies that will be explored include the following:
• The use of combinations of bleach and UV light to clean hospital rooms to help prevent infection
• New tests that help distinguish patients who need antibiotics from those who don't, as a means of preventing antibiotic- resistant infections
• Methods that can help physicians anticipate when medical devices being used to treat a patient are on the verge of causing an infection, so that device-associated infections can be averted
• Treating patients with living microorganisms that are harmless to the patient but compete with harmful germs, as a means of preventing health care-associated infections
Read the press release about the CDC's Prevention Epicenter.
Read other coverage about the CDC:
- CDC: 58% Drop in Central-Line Infections in Hospital ICUs
- GI Societies Urge Congress to Fund CDC's Colorectal Cancer Control Program
The academic medical centers include Cook County Health & Health System, Rush University Medical Center, Duke University, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, University of Pennsylvania and Washington University. The innovative strategies that will be explored include the following:
• The use of combinations of bleach and UV light to clean hospital rooms to help prevent infection
• New tests that help distinguish patients who need antibiotics from those who don't, as a means of preventing antibiotic- resistant infections
• Methods that can help physicians anticipate when medical devices being used to treat a patient are on the verge of causing an infection, so that device-associated infections can be averted
• Treating patients with living microorganisms that are harmless to the patient but compete with harmful germs, as a means of preventing health care-associated infections
Read the press release about the CDC's Prevention Epicenter.
Read other coverage about the CDC:
- CDC: 58% Drop in Central-Line Infections in Hospital ICUs
- GI Societies Urge Congress to Fund CDC's Colorectal Cancer Control Program
