MS-2390

MS-2390

A team of pediatricians from the children’s hospital would like to improve antibiotic prescribing for patients admitted with pneumonia. They have found guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics which states that all pediatric patients with community-acquired pneumonia should receive the appropriate antibiotic therapy within the first 4 hours of admission.

The team review how many pediatric patients with pneumonia receive the appropriate antibiotic therapy within the first 4 hours. The results show that only 60% of the pediatric patients with pneumonia receive the appropriate antibiotic therapy within the first 4 hours. The team were concerned that pediatric patients may come to harm through this inefficiency.

The team develop a new order set on the electronic prescribing system and an alert which notifies the prescriber that the patient has been diagnosed with pneumonia.

The team plan to repeat the project in 6 months time to assess the efficacy of their intervention.

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