Cooperative Agreement U01CK000589

This Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes program (CFDA 93.226) provides $800,000 to disseminate a virtual facilitation workshop to antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) teams and surgeons at 20 U.S. children's hospitals. The goal is to aid in de-implementing unnecessary post-operative antibiotic use in children, while assessing implementation outcomes and clinical impacts such as surgical...

This $968,765 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Mathematical Sciences (CFDA 47.049 - Mathematical and Physical Sciences) will develop a flexible modeling framework to simulate the impact of various testing-based infection control strategies for respiratory pathogens like SARS-CoV-2. The project aims to improve our ability to control existing respiratory diseases and enhance preparedness for future pandemics. Key deliverables include: Developing a...

This $599,783 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support the development of novel computational approaches to identify effective intervention strategies for mitigating healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The project aims to leverage electronic medical records data and machine learning algorithms to predict potential future infections and unobserved asymptomatic cases, enabling...

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) awarded a $165,000 Project Grant under the Allergy and Infectious Diseases Research program (CFDA 93.855) to the Surgical Infection Society Foundation For Education And Research. The purpose of this 1-year planning grant is to design and organize a multicenter, randomized clinical trial to test the hypothesis that clinicians can use serial C-reactive protein (CRP) measurements to individualize the duration of antimicrobial therapy...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training Program (CFDA 93.859) provides $382,852 to Brown University to develop methodological innovations for improving the use of observational causal inference models to estimate the population-level impact of interventions on infectious disease outcomes. The key products and services to be delivered include: Proposing robust specifications for observational...

This federal Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program provides $172,785 to the University of Rochester to develop machine learning (ML)-based clinical decision support (CDS) tools to predict future laboratory values and reduce laboratory overutilization in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs). The project, titled "ML-ROVER: Machine Learning to Reduce Laboratory Test...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $195,381 Project Grant to Washington State University under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) for the period of February 1, 2021 through January 31, 2024. The grant aims to fund the RAPID project "Curtailing Nosocomial Amplification of COVID-19," which seeks to develop epidemiological models to better understand and mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 in healthcare settings. As part of the grant, Research Triangle Institute will...

This Project Grant award of $3,024,414.00 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), under CFDA Program 93.350, aims to establish a library of "out of the box" quality improvement (QI) templates that translate clinical guidelines into care delivery. The grantee, Phrase Health, Inc., will develop QI templates for the inpatient management of four diseases tied to the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP): pneumonia, congestive heart failure, chronic...

This federal Project Grant award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Research on Healthcare Costs, Quality and Outcomes (CFDA 93.226) program provides $799,999 to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center to develop strategies for implementing and using the Operating Room Black Box (ORBB) technology. The key objectives are to: 1) develop a virtual simulator for training operating room teams on the surgical safety checklist, 2) study the validity and...

Intelligent Medicine Inc. received a $275,842 National Science Foundation Project Grant to develop a cloud-based simulation platform for modeling airborne infectious disease spread. Funded through NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), the project advances a hybrid computational approach utilizing multi-scale fluid analysis to enable faster-than-real-time simulation of viral particle dispersion and surface contamination in indoor environments. This will allow...