University receives grant to study antibiotic-resistant infections
Accreditation Connection, March 20, 2009
The Pennsylvania Department of Health has awarded the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine a $4.7 million, four-year grant to study the spread and control of healthcare-acquired infections (HAI), the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
The four-year grant from the Tobacco Settlement Fund will be used to focus on three specific infections: C. difficile, A. baumannii, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (more commonly known as MRSA).
Patients with HAIs are hospitalized three times longer than non-infected patients, and treatment is four times that of a non-infected patient, the report states.
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