Erika Linnander
Yale University, CT·Public Health & Epidemiology
Sepsis, the body's life-threatening overreaction to infection, affects about 1.7 million people in the US each year. It is a leading cause of death.
- Fields
Public Health & Epidemiology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Social Science
- Topics
sepsis
health disparities
variation in care
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Mar 2027
What they work on
- Adapt and deliver a coalition-based leadership intervention in eight US health systems and their surrounding communities to strengthen the organizational culture needed to reduce unwanted variation in sepsis care.
- Measure culture change over time with a new survey instrument and describe each system's experience through qualitative data, combining both in a convergent mixed-methods evaluation of impact and mechanisms.
- Test whether the intervention narrows gaps in time to antibiotics, in-hospital sepsis mortality and all-cause sepsis readmissions using interrupted time series analysis, comparing systems with and without meaningful culture change.
More about the research
Some groups of patients get slower or less standard care, suffer more complications and are readmitted to the hospital more often. Factors at the level of the individual, care teams, hospitals and communities combine to drive these gaps. Yet no tested intervention exists to reduce them. This project asks whether changing how hospitals and community groups work together can narrow these gaps.
Why it matters
Patients from groups who now receive poorer sepsis care could benefit if health systems learn to close gaps in how fast sepsis is treated, how many patients die in hospital and how often they return. The project could give hospitals and community partners a tested leadership approach for reducing unwanted variation in care. The lessons may also apply to other complex health problems.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
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The school
Yale University: 73 labs on PI Pages, $1.5B a year on research, 438 research doctorates a year.
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