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Model-driven surveillance and intervention evaluation in highly stochastic healthcare settings

Award Number: U01CK000533
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR ZOONOTIC, VECTOR-BORNE, AND ENTERIC DISEASES
OPDIV: CDC
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2017
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2021

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Model-driven surveillance and intervention evaluation in highly stochastic healthcare settings - Project Summary Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major source of morbidity and mortality globally. The CDC estimates that in 2011 they caused 721,800 infections in the United States, 75,000 of them fatal. The study of these infections is complicated by the inherently stochastic nature of hospitals. Even the largest hospitals are relatively small populations susceptible to stochastic variation in infection rates, patient risk profiles, and other drivers of transmission dynamics. The problem of stochasticity pervades every aspect of infection control – from how evidence is gathered to how infection control teams are rated and evaluated. Ironically, the problem of stochasticity is exacerbated by improving levels of infection control – as case counts drop, it becomes progressively more difficult to discern a clear signal indicating the success or failure of an infection control program from random noise. This challenge is compounded by other aspects of the healthcare environment. These aspects include the patient care mission demanding multiple interventions to control outbreaks, the need to capture nonlinear transmission dynamics, and the incomplete observation of many aspects of HAI infection dynamics. Computational models can alleviate some of these difficulties by simulating a hospital and the patients and staff within it. Within this simulated environment, novel interventions can be designed and tested – these evaluations taking place thousands of times to capture and account for the effects of stochasticity. This project’s goal is to construct a flexible, high-fidelity model of HAI transmission that makes use of data and expertise from the Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention’s network of community hospitals as well as Washington State University’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital. This model will be used to address three pressing clinical questions: 1) is there a level of hand hygiene wherein contact precautions are no longer necessary, 2) at what level of infections being imported from the environment are vertical versus horizontal infection control interventions optimal, and 3) can the interconnection between human and companion animal health be used to improve clinical infection control? The model itself will be an individual-based model that represents the spatial structure of the hospital, the movements of patients, staff, and others within that spatial structure; and disease transmission via either direct contact or contamination of the hospital environment. This model of the hospital will be linked to a general model for the population as a whole, as well as a similarly detailed model of a veterinary hospital. Once developed, this model will be capable of providing sophisticated decision support and advice to clinicians, administrators, and other public health decision-makers. !


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = -$3,303 )
2023	2019	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death by Infectious Diseases	03	3	11/14/2022	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	-$3,303
2023	2018	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death by Infectious Diseases	03	3	11/14/2022	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
2023	2017	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death by Infectious Diseases	03	3	11/14/2022	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = -$3,303

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2021	2019	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death by Infectious Diseases	02	3	1/29/2021	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2020	2019	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death by Infectious Diseases	01	3	5/29/2020	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $583,053 )
2019	2019	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death by Infectious Diseases	00	3	6/21/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$583,053
2019	2018	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death by Infectious Diseases	01	2	5/15/2019	ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPLEMENT ( + OR - ) (DISCRETIONARY OR BLOCK AWARDS)	$0
														Subtotal = $583,053

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $564,326 )
2018	2018	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death by Infectious Diseases	00	2	5/31/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$564,326
														Subtotal = $564,326

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $571,799 )
2017	2017	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Prevention of Disease, Disability, and Death by Infectious Diseases	000	1	7/14/2017	NEW	$571,799
														Subtotal = $571,799

Grand Total All Awards = $1,715,875

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Model-driven surveillance and intervention evaluation in highly stochastic healthcare settings

Award Number: U01CK000533

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER FOR ZOONOTIC, VECTOR-BORNE, AND ENTERIC DISEASES

OPDIV: CDC

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 08/01/2017

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2021

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