The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety have selected Chicago-based University HealthSystem Consortium as a coordinating entity for a 3-year, $3.7 million contract research project to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia in hospitals.
Using the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program, the Armstrong Institute will look to the Michigan Health & Hospital Association Keystone Center in Okemos and UHC to implement CUSP's strategies nationwide in an effort to lower the rates of this healthcare-associated infection.
The project will begin in early 2014 and is expected to last for two years.
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