Earmark - Cost of Antimicrobial Use Errors

Agency:		Department of Health and Human Services
Bureau:		Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Account:		Program management (75-0511)
Certifying Official:		Director, Division of Budget Formulation
Contact Information:		http://WWW.HHS.GOV 202-720-3210

Cost of Antimicrobial Use Errors

1 recipient will receive $149,000. This is a first-time earmark.

Year Enacted: 2005

Code: n/a

Description: The objectives of this project are to: develop an innovative computer-assisted two-step retrospective case vignette formation/expert review method for ascertaining inpatient antimicrobial use errors; apply this method to a cohort of inpatients receiving antimicrobials on internal medicine wards of an urban teaching hospital; demonstrate that this method of ascertaining antimicrobial use errors can be performed with an acceptable level of efficiency and reproducibility; measure per-patient hospitalization costs of antimicrobial recipients, and excess costs associated with antimicrobial use errors.

Beneficiary/Recipient	Amount ($K)	Program	Type	Address
Hekoen Institute LLC on behalf of Cook County Bureau of Health Services (36-2244897)	$149	Program Management	Other (non-profit research institute)	2100 West Harrison Suite 215 Chicago, IL
Comment: Hekoen Institute is the grant administrator

Citation

Source: Appropriations Statute

Reference: Public Law 108-447

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Citation Excerpt: $150,000 is available for Cook County Bureau of Health Services in Chicago, Illinois for the Antibiotic Resistance Program

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Last Modified: 16-Apr-2007