Grant: Collaborative Health Research Projects
York University
$141,127.00
Development of an Antimicrobial Resistance Diversity Index (ARDI) to guide initiatives and investment in public health, antimicrobial stewardship and infection control
FY 2014-15
Summary
Antimicrobial-resistant germs do not respond to one or more antibiotics. Patients who acquire infections from these germshave longer hospital stays, an increased risk of death, and their care is more expensive. In Canada, the number ofantimicrobial-resistant germs appears to be increasing, but we do not have a good way of measuring ""resistance"", and so itis difficult for researchers and healthcare experts to be certain what is happening with antimicrobial resistance. The goal ofour project is to invent a summary statistic that measures total resistance by combining information of different types - forexample, information on resistance to different types of drugs; resistance to different numbers of drugs; and resistance indifferent species of microbes. We will analyze data from Canadian hospitals and use our statistic to understand how quicklytotal resistance is increasing year-to-year and to compare between hospitals and geographic regions.
Program
Collaborative Health Research Projects
Recipient
Location
Ontario, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
446610-2013
Name nom
Wu, Jianhong
Department département
Mathematics and Statistics
Organization id
38
Institution établissement
York University
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2014
Competition year année de concours
2013
Award amount
141127
Program id
CHRPJ
Program name en
Collaborative Health Research Projects
Program name fr
Projets de recherche concertée sur la santé
Group en
Discovery grants programs
Group fr
Programmes de subventions à la découverte
Committee code
360
Committee name en
Collaborative Health Research Projects Selection Panel
Committee name fr
Comité de sélection de projets de recherche concertée sur la santé
Area of application code
9999
Area of application group en
Not available
Area of application group fr
Non disponible
Area of application en
Not available
Area of application fr
Non disponible
Research subject code
9999
Research subject group en
Not available
Research subject group fr
Non disponible
Research subject en
Not available
Research subject fr
Non disponible
Partie
2 & 3
Nb partie
3
Application title
Development of an Antimicrobial Resistance Diversity Index (ARDI) to guide initiatives and investment in public health, antimicrobial stewardship and infection control
Keyword
NSERC
Application summary
Antimicrobial-resistant germs do not respond to one or more antibiotics. Patients who acquire infections from these germshave longer hospital stays, an increased risk of death, and their care is more expensive. In Canada, the number ofantimicrobial-resistant germs appears to be increasing, but we do not have a good way of measuring ""resistance"", and so itis difficult for researchers and healthcare experts to be certain what is happening with antimicrobial resistance. The goal ofour project is to invent a summary statistic that measures total resistance by combining information of different types - forexample, information on resistance to different types of drugs; resistance to different numbers of drugs; and resistance indifferent species of microbes. We will analyze data from Canadian hospitals and use our statistic to understand how quicklytotal resistance is increasing year-to-year and to compare between hospitals and geographic regions.
