Clinical decision support improves blood culture collection before intravenous antibiotic administration in the emergency department.
Clinical decision support improves blood culture collection before intravenous antibiotic administration in the emergency department.
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临床决策支持可改善急诊室静脉注射抗生素之前的血培养收集。
DOI:
10.1093/jamia/ocac115
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发表时间:
2022
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Rhee,Chanu
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Dutta,Sayon;McEvoy,DustinS;Rubins,DavidM;Dighe,AnandS;Filbin,MichaelR;Rhee,Chanu
ObjectiveSurviving Sepsis guidelines recommend blood cultures before administration of intravenous (IV) antibiotics for patients with sepsis or moderate to high risk of bacteremia. Clinical decision support (CDS) that reminds emergency department (ED) providers to obtain blood cultures when ordering IV antibiotics may lead to improvements in this process measure.MethodsThis was a multicenter causal impact analysis comparing timely blood culture collections prior to IV antibiotics for adult ED patients 1 year before and after a CDS intervention implementation in the electronic health record. A Bayesian structured time-series model compared daily timely blood cultures collected compared to a forecasted synthetic control. Mixed effects models evaluated the impact of the intervention controlling for confounders.ResultsThe analysis included 54 538 patients over 2 years. In the baseline phase, 46.1% had blood cultures prior to IV antibiotics, compared to 58.8% after the intervention. Causal impact analysis determined an absolute increase of 13.1% (95% CI 10.4–15.7%) of timely blood culture collections overall, although the difference in patients with a sepsis diagnosis or who met CDC Adult Sepsis Event criteria was not significant, absolute difference 8.0% (95% CI −0.2 to 15.8). Blood culture positivity increased in the intervention phase, and contamination rates were similar in both study phases.DiscussionCDS improved blood culture collection before IV antibiotics in the ED, without increasing overutilization.ConclusionA simple CDS alert increased timely blood culture collections in ED patients for whom concern for infection was high enough to warrant IV antibiotics.