Sustainability of the Bright STAR Diagnostic Stewardship Program to Reduce Blood Culture Rates Among Critically Ill Children

Charlotte Z Woods-Hill; Danielle W Koontz; Elizabeth A Colantuoni; Shaoming Xiao; Anping Xie; Marlene R Miller; Aaron M Milstone; Bright STAR Authorship Group

doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.3229

Sustainability of the Bright STAR Diagnostic Stewardship Program to Reduce Blood Culture Rates Among Critically Ill Children

JAMA Pediatr. 2023 Nov 1;177(11):1234-1237. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.3229.

Authors

Charlotte Z Woods-Hill¹, Danielle W Koontz², Elizabeth A Colantuoni³, Shaoming Xiao², Anping Xie⁴, Marlene R Miller^{5

6}, Aaron M Milstone²; Bright STAR Authorship Group

Affiliations

¹ Division of Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia.
² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁵ Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁶ Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio.

PMID: 37695609
PMCID: PMC10495921 (available on 2024-09-11)
DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.3229

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This quality improvement study evaluates whether pediatric intensive care units sustained reduced blood culture rates after participation in the Bright STAR collaborative from 2017 to 2020.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Blood Culture*
Child
Cognition
Critical Illness*
Humans
Intensive Care Units, Pediatric

Plain language summary

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding