Implementation of Clinical Decision Support on Emergency Department Delivery of Human Rabies Immune Globulin.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Fatal human rabies infections can be prevented through appropriate rabies postexposure prophylaxis (PEP). Errors in patient selection and administration of human rabies immune globulin in the emergency department (ED) setting were identified in a previous study of rabies PEP administration.

Objective

To test the a priori hypothesis that implementation of a rabies PEP bundle in the ED would improve full adherence to 6 human rabies immune globulin quality indicators compared with preimplementation controls.

Design, setting, and participants

This quality improvement study was conducted in 15 EDs in a US multihospital health system. Patients who received human rabies immune globulin or rabies vaccine in the ED from January 2015 to June 2018 were included in the

SUBMITTER: Yuan F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9214583 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature