An Evaluation of a Antimicrobial Stewardship Recommendation Bundle for Staphylococcus Aureus Bloodstream Infections

Methodist Health System

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Bacterial Infections

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06211829

016.PHA.2022.D

Details and patient eligibility

About

In July 2020, a bundle (Appendix C) was implemented at Methodist Dallas Medical Center where all patients with SAB were reviewed by the antimicrobial stewardship pharmacist (Monday - Friday from 0700 to 1500), a note outlining optimal interventions was written in the electronic medical record (EMR), and the recommendations were communicated to the primary team via secure messaging or telephone

Full description

Evaluation of the Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection(SAB)bundle recommendations will allow for determination of whether this intervention is impactful and warrants the resources currently devoted to it.

Enrollment: 208 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age SAB during hospital admission

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with a history of a prior SAB during the study period (only first occurrence included)
• Blood culture collected within 48hours of patient expiring or transitioning to hospice
• Patients discharged or left before culture results were available
• Patients transferred from an outside hospital