Current state and practice variation in the use of Meningitis/Encephalitis (ME) FilmArray panel in children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Meningitis/Encephalitis FilmArray® Panel (ME panel) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2015 and provides rapid results when assessing patients with suspected meningitis or encephalitis. These patients are evaluated by various subspecialties including pediatric hospital medicine (PHM), pediatric emergency medicine (PEM), pediatric infectious diseases, and pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) physicians. The objective of this study was to evaluate the current use of the ME panel and describe the provider and subspecialty practice variation.

Methods

We conducted an online cross-sectional survey via the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Hospital Medicine (AAP-SOHM) ListServe, Brown University PEM ListServe, and PICU Virtual pediatric

SUBMITTER: Rajbhandari P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9620602 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature