Blood Culture Improvement Guidelines and Diagnostic Stewardship for Antibiotic Reduction in Critically Ill Children

Completed

Conditions studied: Sepsis, Bacteremia

In brief

This study will test the hypothesis that reliable implementation of an evidence-based clinical practice guideline for evaluation of patients with signs and symptoms of sepsis will decrease antibiotic use in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03441126

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

15

Starts

2018-04-01

Expected to finish

2021-12-28

Last updated by the study team

2022-03-11

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Institutions that plan to develop and implement a quality improvement program to reduce blood culture use in their ICUs

You may not qualify if…

• No exclusion criteria

Where it is running

• St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University — St Louis, Missouri, United States
• Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
• OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital — Portland, Oregon, United States
• Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas — Austin, Texas, United States
• Seattle Children's Hospital — Seattle, Washington, United States

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