Grant: Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC partnered)
York University (Toronto, Ontario)
$199,341.00
Development of an Antimicrobial Resistance Diversity Index (ARDI) to guide initiatives and investment in public health, antimicrobial stewardship and infection control
FY 2012-13
Summary
Antimicrobial-resistant germs do not respond to one or more antibiotics. Patients who acquire infections from these germs have longer hospital stays, an increased risk of death, and their care is more expensive. In Canada, the number of antimicrobial-resistant germs appears to be increasing, but we do not have a good way of measuring "resistance", and so it is difficult for researchers and healthcare experts to be certain what is happening with antimicrobial resistance. The goal of our project is to invent a summary statistic that measures total resistance by combining information of different types - for example, information on resistance to different types of drugs; resistance to different numbers of drugs; and resistance in different species of microbes. We will analyze data from Canadian hospitals and use our statistic to understand how quickly total resistance is increasing year-to-year and to compare between hospitals and geographic regions.
Department
Program
Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC partnered)
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
As published
Id
269780
Name
Wu Jianhong
Region
Ontario
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Institution Paid; Research Institution
Partnername
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Instname2
Infection and Immunity
Theme2
Health systems / services
Prcname2
Collaborative Health Research Projects - NSERC Partnered
Projecttitle
Development of an Antimicrobial Resistance Diversity Index (ARDI) to guide initiatives and investment in public health, antimicrobial stewardship and infection control
Programtype2
Operating Grants
Orgnameinp2
York University (Toronto, Ontario)
Cihramount2
$199,341
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Collaborative Health Research Projects (NSERC partnered)
Keyworddelim
Antimicrobial Resistance; Human Health 1101; Infectious Disease; Mathematical Biology And Physiology 2957; Mathematical Modelling 2960; Medical And Health Sciences 1211
Abstract
Antimicrobial-resistant germs do not respond to one or more antibiotics. Patients who acquire infections from these germs have longer hospital stays, an increased risk of death, and their care is more expensive. In Canada, the number of antimicrobial-resistant germs appears to be increasing, but we do not have a good way of measuring "resistance", and so it is difficult for researchers and healthcare experts to be certain what is happening with antimicrobial resistance. The goal of our project is to invent a summary statistic that measures total resistance by combining information of different types - for example, information on resistance to different types of drugs; resistance to different numbers of drugs; and resistance in different species of microbes. We will analyze data from Canadian hospitals and use our statistic to understand how quickly total resistance is increasing year-to-year and to compare between hospitals and geographic regions.
Competitiondate
201210
Approvedterm2
3 yrs 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Wu, Jianhong; Morris, Andrew M
Approvedterm
3 ans 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
Knowledge Translation Branch~ $199,341~ $0~
