Grant: Operating Grant: Evaluation of population-level interventions to reduce AMR
University of Calgary
$296,150.00
Improving patient safety and hospital hygiene through the efficient and accurate identification of patients with antimicrobial resistant organisms (AROs) using clinical support tools in electronic medical records
FY 2022-23
Summary
Bacteria causing infections that are resistant to antibiotics is a growing problem in the world. Using tools to find patients with resistant bacteria when they come to hospital will help healthcare staff take steps to stop these bacteria from moving between patients and from polluting the hospital environment. Many hospitals in Canada are using computers to track patient information and have built an electronic antibiotic resistant organism (ARO) screening tool to help identify patients who carry resistant bacteria. This project will help us understand how these tools are being used by 1) measuring how complete and correct the information in the screening tools are; 2) measuring how well the screening tools work at finding patients that carry resistant bacteria; 3) surveying and talking to hospital staff to understand why they do or do not use the screening tool and if they think ARO screening is a good way to prevent resistant bacteria from passing between patients and the hospital environment; and 4) picking the best ways, based on hospital staff and patients' opinions, to improve ARO screening practices and the use of this tool in hospitals. We will collect completed screening information from electronic medical records at hospitals in Alberta and Ontario. Screening data from Alberta, where more data are available, will be compared to other healthcare databases to check how correct they are. We will talk to doctors and nurses to understand what helps them or makes it hard for them to complete the ARO screening tool. After these steps are completed, we will have a meeting with these healthcare staff and patients to decide what are the best ways to improve ARO screening in Canadian hospitals. This work will help healthcare decision-makers keep patients safe by finding gaps in how ARO screening is done and studying the best ways to make it better to prevent passing resistant bacteria between patients and the hospital environment.
Department
Program
Operating Grant: Evaluation of population-level interventions to reduce AMR
Recipient
Location
Alberta, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
CIHR Funding Decisions Database
As published
Id
478042
Name
Leal Jenine R
Region
Alberta
Country
Canada
Orgtype
Institution Paid; Research Institution
Instname2
Health Services and Policy Research
Theme2
Health systems / services
Prcname2
Evaluation of population-level interventions to reduce AMR
Projecttitle
Improving patient safety and hospital hygiene through the efficient and accurate identification of patients with antimicrobial resistant organisms (AROs) using clinical support tools in electronic medical records
Programtype2
Operating Grants
Orgnameinp2
University of Calgary
Cihramount2
$296,150
Cihrequipment2
$0
Programname2
Operating Grant: Evaluation of population-level interventions to reduce AMR
Keyworddelim
Admission Screening; Antimicrobial Resistant Organisms; Barriers And Facilitators; Behaviour Change; Electronic Medical Records; Hospital Hygiene; Patient Safety
Abstract
Bacteria causing infections that are resistant to antibiotics is a growing problem in the world. Using tools to find patients with resistant bacteria when they come to hospital will help healthcare staff take steps to stop these bacteria from moving between patients and from polluting the hospital environment. Many hospitals in Canada are using computers to track patient information and have built an electronic antibiotic resistant organism (ARO) screening tool to help identify patients who carry resistant bacteria. This project will help us understand how these tools are being used by 1) measuring how complete and correct the information in the screening tools are; 2) measuring how well the screening tools work at finding patients that carry resistant bacteria; 3) surveying and talking to hospital staff to understand why they do or do not use the screening tool and if they think ARO screening is a good way to prevent resistant bacteria from passing between patients and the hospital environment; and 4) picking the best ways, based on hospital staff and patients' opinions, to improve ARO screening practices and the use of this tool in hospitals. We will collect completed screening information from electronic medical records at hospitals in Alberta and Ontario. Screening data from Alberta, where more data are available, will be compared to other healthcare databases to check how correct they are. We will talk to doctors and nurses to understand what helps them or makes it hard for them to complete the ARO screening tool. After these steps are completed, we will have a meeting with these healthcare staff and patients to decide what are the best ways to improve ARO screening in Canadian hospitals. This work will help healthcare decision-makers keep patients safe by finding gaps in how ARO screening is done and studying the best ways to make it better to prevent passing resistant bacteria between patients and the hospital environment.
Competitiondate
202302
Approvedterm2
2 yrs 0 mth
Pinamesdelim
Leal, Jenine R; Hope, Karen; Lee, Bonita E; Rennert-May, Elissa; Sauro, Khara M
Approvedterm
2 ans 0 mois
Cihrcontribution2
MI #3~ $296,150~ $0~
