UPMC received $3.7 million in funds from a patient care research organization to compare the effectiveness of strategies that support sepsis survivors and people recovering from severe pneumonia.
The study will be conducted over the next three years by the UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care, a nonprofit research organization, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine's department of critical care medicine. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, an independent, nonprofit authorized by Congress in 2010, awarded the grant money.
The study will focus on testing care strategies to identify ones that will help better manage patients who have survived sepsis and severe pneumonia and have left the hospital.
The study aims to enroll more than 1,600 participants who will undergo different types of interventions once they have returned home from the hospital. Clinicians will monitor their progress remotely.
"More and more, people are surviving sepsis. But that's not enough, we want them to thrive," said Sachin Yende, MD, MS, professor of critical care medicine and clinical and transitional science at the University of Pittsburgh and co-leader of the study. "This trial will test several at-home interventions and as it progresses increase the number of patients we enroll in the better performing arms of the study while phasing out the less successful interventions."