Publications
Featured Publications
BrighT STAR Publications
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Woods-Hill CZ, Koontz DW, Voskertchian A, Xie A, Shea J, Miller MR, Fackler JC, Milstone AM; BrighT STAR Consensus Authorship Group. Consensus Recommendations for Blood Culture Use in Critically Ill Children Using a Modified Delphi Approach. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2021 Apr 23. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33899804.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33899804/
Sick-Samuels, Anna C. MD, MPH; Kelly, Daniel P. MD, MHQ; Woods-Hill, Charlotte Z. MD, MSHP; Arthur, Abigail MD, MPH; Kumar, Urmi MPH; Koontz, Danielle W. MAA, MAS; Marsteller, Jill A. PhD, MPP; Milstone, Aaron M. MD, MHS; and the BrighT STAR (Testing STewardship for Antibiotic Reduction) Respiratory Consensus Authorship group. Diagnostic Stewardship of Endotracheal Aspirate Cultures in Hospitalized Children With Artificial Airways: Expert Consensus Statements From the BrighT STAR (Testing STewardship for Antibiotic Reduction) Respiratory Collaborative. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine ():10.1097/PCC.0000000000003695, February 13, 2025. | DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000003695
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Singh HK, Claeys KC, Advani SD, Ballam YJ, Penney J, Schutte KM, Baliga C, Milstone AM, Hayden MK, Morgan DJ, Diekema DJ. Diagnostic stewardship to improve patient outcomes and healthcare-associated infection (HAI) metrics. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 2024 Jan 11:1-7.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38204365/
Sick-Samuels, Anna C. MD, MPHH1–3; Booth, Lauren D. MSN, CRNP4; Milstone, Aaron M. MD, MHS1–3; Schumacher, Christina PhD, MHS1; Bergmann, Jules MD4; Stockwell, David C. MD, MBA3,4. A Novel Comprehensive Algorithm for Evaluation of PICU Patients With New Fever or Instability*. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 24(8):p 670-680, August 2023.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37125808/
Sick-Samuels AC, Woods-Hill C. Diagnostic Stewardship in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Infectious disease clinics of North America. 2022 Mar 1;36(1):203-18.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35168711/
Sick-Samuels AC, Linz M, Bergmann J, Fackler JC, Berenholtz SM, Ralston SL, Hoops K, Dwyer J, Colantuoni E, Milstone AM. Diagnostic Stewardship of Endotracheal Aspirate Cultures in a PICU. Pediatrics 2021 Apr 7:e20201634. doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-1634. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33827937.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33827937/
Hoops KEM, Fackler JC, King A, Colantuoni E, Milstone AM, Woods-Hill C. How good is our diagnostic intuition? Clinician prediction of bacteremia in critically ill children. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2020;20(1):144. Published 2020 Jul 2. doi:10.1186/s12911-020-01165-3.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7330962/
Sick-Samuels AC, Woods-Hill CZ, Fackler JC, Tamma PD, Klaus SA, Colantuoni EE, Milstone AM. Association of a blood culture utilization intervention on antibiotic use in a pediatric intensive care unit. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Apr;40(4):482-48 doi: 10.1017/ice.2019.10. Epub 2019 Feb 15. PMID: 30767809; PMCID: PMC6459704.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30767809/
Woods-Hill CZ, Fackler J, Nelson McMillan K, Ascenzi J, Martinez DA, Toerper MF, Voskertchian A, Colantuoni E, Klaus SA, Levin S, Milstone AM. Association of a Clinical Practice Guideline with Blood Culture Use in Critically Ill Children. JAMA Pediatr. 2017 Feb 1;171(2):157-164. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.3153. PubMed ID: 27942705.
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Woods-Hill CZ, Koontz DW, Xie A, et al. Diagnostic stewardship for blood cultures in the pediatric intensive care unit: lessons in implementation from the BrighT STAR Collaborative. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology. 2024;4(1):e148. doi:10.1017/ash.2024.416
https://doi.org/10.1017/ash.2024.416
Woods-Hill CZ, Nelson MN, Eriksen W, Rendle KA, Beidas RS, Bonafide CP, Brajcich MR, Milstone AM, Shea JA. Determinants of Blood Culture Use in Critically Ill Children: A Multicenter Qualitative Study. Pediatric Quality & Safety. 2023 Mar;8(2).
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37051407/
Xie A, Koontz DW, Colantuoni EA, Voskertchian A, Miller MR, Fackler JC, Milstone AM, Woods-Hill CZ. Application of participatory ergonomics to the dissemination of a quality improvement program for optimizing blood culture use. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2023 Jun 10. Doi.org/10.1016/j.jcjq.2023.06.004
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37429759/
Sick-Samuels, A.C., Koontz, D.W., Xie, A., Kelly, D., Woods-Hill, C.Z., Aneja, A., Xiao, S., Colantuoni, E.A., Marsteller, J. and Milstone, A.M., 2023. A Survey of PICU Clinician Practices and Perceptions regarding Respiratory Cultures in the Evaluation of Ventilator-Associated Infections in the BrighT STAR Collaborative. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, pp.10-1097.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37812030/
Woods-Hill CZ, Koontz DW, King AF, Voskertchian A, Colantuoni EA, Miller MR, Fackler JC, Bonafide CP, Milstone AM, Xie A; BrighT STAR Authorship group. Practices, Perceptions, and Attitudes in the Evaluation of Critically Ill Children for Bacteremia: A National Survey. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2020 Jan;21(1):e23-e29. doi: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000002176. PMID: 31702704; PMCID: PMC6942229.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31702704/
Sick-Samuels AC, Fackler JC, Berenholtz SM, Milstone AM. Understanding reasons clinicians obtained endotracheal aspirate cultures and impact on patient management to inform diagnostic stewardship initiatives. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2020 Feb;41(2):240-242. doi: 10.1017/ice.2019.347. PMID: 31813405; PMCID: PMC7041429.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31813405/
Xie A, Koontz DW, Voskertchian A, Fackler JC, Milstone AM, Woods-Hill CZ. Survey-based Work System Assessment to Facilitate Large-scale Dissemination of Healthcare Quality Improvement Programs. Pediatr Qual Saf. 2020 Apr 9;5(2):e288. doi: 10.1097/pq9.0000000000000288. PMID: 32426645; PMCID: PMC7190253.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7190253/
Xie A, Woods-Hill CZ, Berenholtz SM, Milstone AM. Use of Human Factors and Ergonomics to Disseminate Health Care Quality Improvement Programs. Qual Manag Health Care. 2019;28(2):117-118. doi:10.1097/QMH.0000000000000211
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30921286/
Xie A, Woods-Hill CZ, King AF, Enos-Graves H, Ascenzi J, Gurses AP, Klaus SA, Fackler JC, Milstone AM. Work System Assessment to Facilitate the Dissemination of a Quality Improvement Program for Optimizing Blood Culture Use: A Case Study Using a Human Factors Engineering Approach. J Pediatric Infect Dis Soc. 2017 Nov 20. doi: 10.1093/jpids/pix097. PubMed ID: 29165616.
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Woods-Hill CZ, Koontz DW, Colantuoni EA, et al. Sustainability of the Bright STAR Diagnostic Stewardship Program to Reduce Blood Culture Rates Among Critically Ill Children. JAMA Pediatr. 2023;177(11):1234–1237. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2023.3229
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Xiao S, Woods-Hill CZ, Koontz D, Thurm C, Richardson T, Milstone AM, Colantuoni E. Comparison of administrative database-derived and hospital-derived data for monitoring blood culture use in the pediatric intensive care unit. Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. 2023 Jul 31;12(7):436-42.