https://www.selleckchem.com/pr....oducts/ins018-055-is
Clinicians commonly obtain endotracheal aspirate cultures (EACs) in the evaluation of suspected ventilator-associated infections. However, bacterial growth in EACs does not distinguish bacterial colonization from infection and may lead to overtreatment with antibiotics. We describe the development and impact of a clinical decision support algorithm to standardize the use of EACs from ventilated PICU patients. We monitored EAC use using a statistical process control chart. We compared the rate of EACs using Poisson regressi
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