Sunday, May 19, 2024
5/19/2024
Project Abstract Summary: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the nation’s leading infectious diseases medical society, proposes a multi-pronged strategy to support the maintenance of essential healthcare services to contain and prevent COVID-19 transmission, while keeping patients and healthcare workers safe and healthy. This proposal will focus on strategies that address Health Care Professionals (HCPs), with an emphasis on those serving individuals at increased risk for infectious diseases. IDSA will rapidly disseminate, and facilitate the adoption and implementation of, COVID-19 infection prevention and control (IPC) guidance among HCPs—including infectious disease (ID) physicians and other frontline workers who consistently engage in IPC of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. Our strategy will be realized by harnessing IDSA’s reach to the more than 12,000 IDSA members and ID physicians, scientists and other professionals committed to prevention, public health, education, research and patient care in health care settings severely affected by COVID-19. In doing so, IDSA will reach HCPs who care for underserved populations at increased risk of contracting COVID-19, including racial/ethnic minorities and individuals of low socio-economic status. IDSA will employ five strategies to achieve the short-, intermediate- and long-term outcomes of this project. Strategy 1: Disseminate & Adopt. COVID-19 Prevention and Control Guidance Dissemination. Activities to increase dissemination of guidance, clinical guidelines, and best practices to ID clinicians and other HCPs involved in COVID-19 IPC. Strategy 2: Inform & Adapt. CDC COVID-19 Guidance Feedback Program. Provide a pipeline of feedback to help CDC assess if front-line clinicians are comprehending and integrating guidance as part of their regular workday and finding it useful with patients. Strategy 3: Target & Train. COVID-19 Prevention & Control- Provider Engagement & Training. Engage and train frontline personnel in CDC guidance and best practices, leading to an extended workforce that is well-equipped to ensure adherence to COVID-19 IPC. Strategy 4: Integrate & Extend. Expansion of the CDC COVID-19 Real Time Learning Network (RTLN). Expand current RTLN to increase focus on COVID-19 IPC to assist CDC in developing cross-sub-specialty networks for information sharing & problem-solving. Strategy 5: Evaluate and Improve. COVID-19 IPC Performance & Quality Measurement. Develop a set of performance and quality measurement activities to assist CDC in evaluating the impact and effectiveness of CDC’s COVID-19 IPC guidance. Our senior leadership and nationwide member team have more than 40 years of technical experience designing, implementing and monitoring infection prevention and control programs, and are well versed in managing large, complex initiatives, including large-scale federal grants and awards. Over the 5 years of this program, IDSA will dedicate significant staff resources and numerous subject matter experts to support program design, delivery, measurement and evaluation, enabling us to successfully implement the above initiatives and meet desired outcomes.
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