{"id":137,"date":"2017-04-17T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/?p=137"},"modified":"2017-04-10T16:29:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T21:29:41","slug":"improving-patient-care-through-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/2017\/04\/17\/improving-patient-care-through-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving Patient Care Through Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>Our Division is committed to improving the care of our patient through scholarly activities including clinical research. Here is one of our teams out on the patient floors collecting data related to improve the technology we use for intravenous (IV) lines in our patients. We presented our first phase of this project at IDWeek last year (see poster below) and have just finished collecting data on phase 2 using our updated technology. One part of this team to highlight is that research is not just for our faculty! We have Richard Hankins (internal medicine resident), Jen Cavalieri (research coordinator extraordinaire), Denisa Majorant, MD (ID fellow) and Dr. Kelly Cawcutt (Faculty). \u00a0Not pictured are Dr. Paul Fey (Microbiology), Elizabeth Lyden(Biostatistician) and Dr. Mark Rupp (Faculty).<\/p>\n<p>Read the published abstract <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/ofid\/article\/doi\/10.1093\/ofid\/ofw172.278\/2636770\/Microbial-Colonization-of-an-Intravascular\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-138\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/ID-Research-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/ID-Research-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/ID-Research-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/ID-Research-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/ID-Research-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/ID-Research-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/ID-Research-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-141\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/Scrub-Hub-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/Scrub-Hub-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/Scrub-Hub-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/Scrub-Hub-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/Scrub-Hub-120x87.jpg 120w, https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/infectious-disease\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/54\/2017\/04\/Scrub-Hub.jpg 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Division is committed to improving the care of our patient through scholarly activities including clinical research. 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