1139. Multidisciplinary Initiative to Increase Guideline-Concordant Antibiotic Prescriptions at Discharge for Hospitalized Children with Uncomplicated Community-Acquired Pneumonia

摘要

BackgroundCommunity-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most common diagnosis in hospitalized children. The Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America published evidenced-based clinical practice guidelines for the management of CAP in children 3 months of age or older in 2011. These guidelines are not consistently followed. Our objective was to evaluate if quality improvement (QI) methods could improve guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing, specifically addressing the use of oral third-generation cephalosporins, at hospital discharge for children with uncomplicated CAP.