CDC https://www.cdc.gov, awarded $15.88 million to Wayne State University’s https://research.wayne.edu, School of Medicine, so the Department of Emergency Medicine can do a national study on viral infections presenting in Emergency Departments (ED) in the U.S.
The Study to be led by Jeffrey Kline, MD, Professor and Associate Chair of the Research for the Department of Emergency Medicine, will take place at EDs in 21 states and D.C. at 100 hospitals to study the surveillance of viral infections. Data will be obtained from EMRs at the participating hospital systems. The study network to be known as RECOVER-CDC enables patients to be identified based upon their reason or their chief complaint for visiting the ED.
Then the doctors will determine how many of these patients are being tested for SARS-CoV-2, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus and other viruses as part of usual care and their vaccination status. At this point, the patients will be followed to determine if they are admitted to the hospital or not and then follow their outcomes and diagnoses within 30 days.
The researchers aim to determine the frequency of testing symptomatic patients for viral infections, results of those tests, the outcomes and diagnoses of patients with known or suspected viral infections, and the association of outcomes with vaccine status.