Comparison of Administrative Database-Derived and Hospital-Derived Data for Monitoring Blood Culture Use in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Optimizing blood culture practices requires monitoring of culture use. Collecting culture data from electronic medical records can be resource intensive. Our objective was to determine whether administrative data could serve as a data source to measure blood culture use in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs).

Methods

Using data from a national diagnostic stewardship collaborative to reduce blood culture use in PICUs, we compared the monthly number of blood cultures and patient-days collected from sites (site-derived) and the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS, administrative-derived), an administrative data warehouse, for 11 participating sites. The collaborative's reduction in blood culture use was compared using administrative-derived and site-derived

SUBMITTER: Xiao S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10895403 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature