Improving Antimicrobial Prescribing Practices in the Neonatal ICU

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Conditions studied: Infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

In brief

To determine if 3 randomly assigned bundles of stewardship interventions would reduce overall and inappropriate antimicrobial use in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a pre-post study was performed in 4 NICUs.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03079245

Run by

Columbia University

People needed

6184

Starts

2009-05-01

Expected to finish

2012-04-30

Last updated by the study team

2017-03-14

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• infants admitted to study NICUs <7 days of age who remained hospitalized 4 days or more days

You may not qualify if…

• Infants admitted to study NICUs 7 days of age and older who were hospitalized less than 4 days

Where it is running

• Christiana Care Health Sciences — Wilmington, Delaware, United States
• Columbia University Medical Center — New York, New York, United States
• Weill Cornell University Medical Center — New York, New York, United States
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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