A Quality Improvement Project Focused on Improving First Dose Antibiotic Timeliness for Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients with Severe Sepsis.

ABSTRACT: Recommended time to start administration of first dose antibiotics for sepsis patients is 60 minutes from time 0. Institution-specific data revealed that only one-quarter of severe sepsis patients were meeting this goal when measured from the time of provider order entry. Reliance on a pneumatic tube system for first-dose antibiotic delivery was deemed largely responsible for this finding. This project aimed to increase the percentage of pediatric intensive care unit patients with severe sepsis receiving first dose antibiotics within 60 minutes of provider order entry to ≥50%.

Methods

Baseline data were collected from May to June 2018 and resulted in the development of a new "antibiotic champion" process, which we piloted for 1 week in early August 2018. The primary outcome measure

SUBMITTER: Keul R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7056285 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan-Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature