BrighT STAR (Testing STewardship for Antibiotic Reduction) includes children’s hospitals across the United States with a common mission to avoid unnecessary testing in critically ill children that leads to overtreatment and unintended harm.
Our mission is to support and optimize diagnostic stewardship quality improvement programs to:
- safely reduce unnecessary testing and treatment
- decrease antibiotic resistance
- provide high-value care
Diagnostic stewardship is an essential component of our health care system’s advancement to a high-value care model and provides a novel strategy to reduce overuse. Diagnostic stewardship involves altering how providers order, perform and report diagnostic tests.
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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.
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