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

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 the implementation process in detail to understand how sites facilitated this diagnostic stewardship program in their PICUs.

Design

A multi-center electronic survey of the 14 BrighT STAR sites, based on qualitative data about the implementation process collected during the primary phase of BrighT STAR.

Setting

14 PICUs enrolled in BrighT STAR.

Participants

Site leads at each enrolled site.

Methods

An electronic survey guided by implementation science literature and based

SUBMITTER: Woods-Hill CZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11428017 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature