Impact of Clinician Feedback Reports on Antibiotic Use in Children Hospitalized With Community-acquired Pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Feedback reports summarizing clinician performance are effective tools for improving antibiotic use in the ambulatory setting, but the effectiveness of feedback reports in the hospital setting is unknown.

Methods

Quasi-experimental study conducted between December 2021 and November 2023 within a pediatric health system measuring the impact of clinician feedback reports delivered by email and reviewed in a monthly meeting on appropriate antibiotic use in children hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). We used an interrupted time series analysis (ITSA) to estimate the immediate change and change over time in the proportion of CAP encounters adherent to validated metrics of antibiotic choice and duration, then used Poisson regression to estimate interv

SUBMITTER: Chiotos K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12120840 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature