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A Multi-Center Diagnostic Stewardship Program to Improve Respiratory Culture Utilization in Critically Ill Children

United States15 participantsStarted 2021-05-01

Plain-language summary

The objective of this study is to evaluate implementation of diagnostic stewardship programs as a strategy to safely reduce antibiotic use, and to generate evidence and tools to support dissemination of diagnostic stewardship programs to a large and diverse group of hospitals.

Who can participate

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Institutions that plan to develop and implement a quality improvement program to reduce respiratory culture use in their Pediatric ICUs Exclusion Criteria: * Institutions that do not plan to develop and implement a quality improvement program to reduce respiratory culture use in their Pediatric ICUs

What they're measuring

Respiratory Culture Rate

Timeframe: up to 42 months

Trial details

NCT IDNCT04987840

SponsorJohns Hopkins University

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2026-06-01

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