The purpose of this program of research is to improve care for frail elderly people in nursing homes and secondarily, to reduce the burden of elderly patients on emergency department resources and to give decision makers tools to identify potentially modifiable elements to improve the quality of care of residents who move between nursing homes and emergency departments.
Research Location: University of Alberta
National Health Partnership for Reducing Infections in NICU
Sixteen percent of infants ≤32 weeks gestation admitted to Canadian neonatal intensive care units (NICU) acquire an infection while in the hospital, making nosocomial infections one of the most important causes of mortality, morbidity and resource use in the NICU. Previous efforts by individual NICUs to reduce the incidence of nosocomial infections often were not evidence-based, did not use data from the institutions concerned, and did not yield results that could easily be generalized for use in other NICUs.
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