A Learning Health Community BrighT STAR

The BrighT STAR Learning Health Community includes children’s hospitals across the United States and internationally with a common mission to develop and disseminate programs that safely reduce unnecessary testing and treatment and provide high-value care to critically ill children.



New Blood Draw Protocol Could Minimize Risk for Critically Ill Children

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Children's Center and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have found that fostering cross-departmental collaboration and offering guidelines to clinicians helped reduce the number of unnecessary blood draws on some of the smallest and most vulnerable patients.

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