Between 2007 and 2010, AHRQ funded 40
contracts and 18 grants focusing on expanding the HAI knowledge
base and implementing HAI prevention strategies. Today it is
necessary to look across these projects in order to (1) identify,
document, and synthesize their findings and results to ensure that
AHRQ, healthcare professionals, and the public can make best use of
these findings and (2) identify remaining gaps in the HAI science
base to enable AHRQ to fund future studies that will address these
needs. The synthesis will draw on several data sources, including
interviews with project leaders. In addition to learning about
studies that have not published peer-reviewed manuscripts, the
interviews will enable the project team to delve into project
details that are not typically available in publications, such as
the project leader's motivation for responding to the request for
proposal, challenges faced in implementing the project, changes in
the project's delivery schedule or work plan, experts' views on how
HAI prevention evidence generated by a specific project fits into
the HAI research agenda more broadly, and remaining gaps in the HAI
knowledge base.
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1999
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