Loma Linda (Calif.) University, San Diego-based Sepsis Alliance and sepsis survivor Kim Pickinpaugh have received funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute to establish the "Sepsis Survivors Engagement Project," an initiative focused on building a community around and encouraging research regarding sepsis, according to a news release.
The grant is one of the first Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards' "Pipeline to Proposal" awards, a program giving seed money to individuals and groups to help develop health research partnerships and projects when they may not be able to do so otherwise.
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Participants in SSEP hope to create a sepsis patient- and family-based survey identifying key concerns of survivors that cover the span of the initial diagnosis to life after surviving sepsis.
"SSEP will change the way we do research by directly involving the patient and having investigators, stakeholders and patients work together to develop and tackle research questions," said Azmina Ghelani, center administrator for Linda Loma University Center for Comparative Effectiveness and Outcomes Research, in the news release.
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