biostudies-literatureXiao SNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious DiseasesAgency for Healthcare Research and QualityAHRQ HHSNIAID NIH HHSNational Heart, Lung, and Blood InstituteNHLBI NIH HHSNIH436-442https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10895403biostudies-literatureUnknown12(7)<h4>Background</h4>Optimizing blood culture practices requires monitoring of culture use. Collecting culture data from electronic medical records can be resource intensive. Our objective was to determine whether administrative data could serve as a data source to measure blood culture use in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs).<h4>Methods</h4>Using data from a national diagnostic stewardship collaborative to reduce blood culture use in PICUs, we compared the monthly number of blood cultures and patient-days collected from sites (site-derived) and the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS, administrative-derived), an administrative data warehouse, for 11 participating sites. The collaborative's reduction in blood culture use was compared using administrative-derived and site-derived Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases SocietyComparison of Administrative Database-Derived and Hospital-Derived Data for Monitoring Blood Culture Use in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.PMC108954031R18HS025642R18 HS025642K23 HL151381K24AI141580K23HL151381K24 AI141580Steffen KMFackler JCToltzis PWoods-Hill CZHauger SBEzetendu CHysmith NDAgulnik ADallefeld SHTadphale SDSmith CMFoster CBThurm CSchwenk HTSandora TJWolf JKociolek LKClayton JALarsen GYMiller MRXie AColantuoni EElaine-Marie Albert JMilstone AMBright STAR Authorship GroupFlaherty BFRichardson TLin JCNolt DPriebe GPKirby ALXiao SCoffin SEKoontz DFainberg NAZerr DMLinam WMNewland JGHong SJfalseComparison of Administrative Database-Derived and Hospital-Derived Data for Monitoring Blood Culture Use in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.<h4>Background</h4>Optimizing blood culture practices requires monitoring of culture use. Collecting culture data from electronic medical records can be resource intensive. Our objective was to determine whether administrative data could serve as a data source to measure blood culture use in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs).<h4>Methods</h4>Using data from a national diagnostic stewardship collaborative to reduce blood culture use in PICUs, we compared the monthly number of blood cultures and patient-days collected from sites (site-derived) and the Pediatric Health Information System (PHIS, administrative-derived), an administrative data warehouse, for 11 participating sites. The collaborative's reduction in blood culture use was compared using administrative-derived and site-derived 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z2023 Jul2025-04-19T21:05:24.022Z2025-04-19T21:05:24.022ZS-EPMC108954033741767910.1093/jpids/piad048