A Quality Initiative to Decrease Time to Antibiotics in Children with Sickle Cell Disease and Fever

Children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are at increased risk for sepsis secondary to functional asplenia. Timely administration of antibiotics, within 60 minutes of triage, is a national indicator of quality SCD care in the United States. However, there are no reports demonstrating the feasibility...

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Published in:Pediatr Qual Saf
Main Authors: McKinney, Christopher, Caruso-Brown, Amy, Montgomery, Kathleen, Gillespie, Anne, Coughlin, Rebecca, Law, Dawn, Brouwer, Anna, Tytler, Lauren, Hilden, Joanne, Nuss, Rachelle
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Wolters Kluwer Health 2020
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Individual QI Projects from Single Institutions
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7056294/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32190792
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1097/pq9.0000000000000245
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