
NTDS will partner with researchers from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University to focus on the following four areas of patient safety:
- central venous catheter access and care;
- dialysis station disinfection;
- hand hygiene; and
- injection safety.
The CDC contract will fund work that expands NTDS's current infection prevention efforts. In 2016, CDC awarded ASN a three-year contract to spearhead the NTDS project, which was launched to help prevention infection in dialysis facilities.