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Project Number: | I01HX002950-01A1 |
| Title: | Building a Learning Healthcare System to Understand and Improve Sepsis Outcomes in the VA TeleICU Network |
| Principal Investigator: | James M Blum |
| Location: | Iowa City, IA |
| Congressional District Code: | 4 |
| Research Service: | Health Services R&D |
| Project Period: | July 2020 - June 2024 |
| FY 2021 Funding Amount: | $88,121 |
| Total Award Amount (all years): |
$749,081 |
| Abstract: |
View full abstract and other project information on NIH RePORTER Go To NIH RePORTER Excerpt: Background: Sepsis, the body's overwhelming systemic response to infection, strikes more than 1 million patients annually in the United States and is known to impact over 48,000 Veterans every year. Over the past decade, sepsis survival has continued to improve through a better understanding of effective therapies, early intervention, and prophylaxis. This has been seen in the private sector and VA with inpatient mortality dropping from 15% in 2008 to 10% in 2012. However, despite this improveme... |