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Association of a blood culture utilization intervention on antibiotic use in a pediatric intensive care unit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2019

Anna C. Sick-Samuels Open the ORCID record for Anna C. Sick-Samuels [Opens in a new window] ,
Charlotte Z. Woods-Hill ,
James C. Fackler ,
Pranita D. Tamma ,
Sybil A. Klaus ,
Elizabeth E. Colantuoni  and
Aaron M. Milstone
Anna C. Sick-Samuels*
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Charlotte Z. Woods-Hill
Affiliation:
Division of Critical Care, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
James C. Fackler
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Anesthesia and Critical Care, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Pranita D. Tamma
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Sybil A. Klaus
Affiliation:
MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia
Elizabeth E. Colantuoni
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland
Aaron M. Milstone
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Author for correspondence: Anna Sick-Samuels, Email: asick1@jhmi.edu
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , April 2019 , pp. 482 - 484
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