The BrighT STAR (Testing STewardship for Antibiotic Reduction) Learning Health Community includes children’s hospitals across the United States and internationally with a common mission to support and optimize diagnostic stewardship quality improvement programs to:
- safely reduce unnecessary testing and treatment
- decrease antibiotic resistance
- provide high-value care
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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.