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Children's National Hospital quality initiative changes culture of antibiotic prescribing in NICU

from Children’s National Hospital via Medical Xpress

Children's National Hospital quality initiative changes culture of antibiotic prescribing in NICU Children’s National Hospital via Medical Xpress A quality improvement initiative in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Children's National Hospital led to a significant reduction in treatment with intravenous vancomycin, an antibiotic used for resistant gram positive infections, which is often associated with acute kidney injury. The findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, show the initiative reduced vancomycin use in patients by 66 percent, and the NICU has sustained the reduction for more than a year. READ MORE

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