Diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in the pediatric intensive care unit: lessons in implementation from the BrighT STAR Collaborative

• Main Authors: Charlotte Z. Woods-Hill (Author), Danielle W. Koontz (Author), Anping Xie (Author), Elizabeth A. Colantuoni (Author), Anna Sick-Samuels (Author), Marlene R. Miller (Author), Abigail Arthur (Author), Anushree Aneja (Author), Urmi Kumar (Author), Aaron M. Milstone (Author), for the Brigh T STAR authorship group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Objective: BrighT STAR was a diagnostic stewardship collaborative of 14 pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) across the United States designed to standardize and reduce unnecessary blood cultures and study the impact on patient outcomes and broad-spectrum antibiotic use. We now examine th...