Article ; Online: Design and Implementation of a Visual Analytics Electronic Antibiogram within an Electronic Health Record System at a Tertiary Pediatric Hospital.
Applied clinical informatics
2018 Volume 9, Issue 1, Page(s) 37–45
Abstract: Background: Hospitals use antibiograms to guide optimal empiric antibiotic therapy, reduce inappropriate antibiotic usage, and identify areas requiring intervention by antimicrobial stewardship programs. Creating a hospital antibiogram is a time- ... ...
| Abstract | Background: Hospitals use antibiograms to guide optimal empiric antibiotic therapy, reduce inappropriate antibiotic usage, and identify areas requiring intervention by antimicrobial stewardship programs. Creating a hospital antibiogram is a time-consuming manual process that is typically performed annually. Objective: We aimed to apply visual analytics software to electronic health record (EHR) data to build an automated, electronic antibiogram ("e-antibiogram") that adheres to national guidelines and contains filters for patient characteristics, thereby providing access to detailed, clinically relevant, and up-to-date antibiotic susceptibility data. Methods: We used visual analytics software to develop a secure, EHR-linked, condition- and patient-specific e-antibiogram that supplies susceptibility maps for organisms and antibiotics in a comprehensive report that is updated on a monthly basis. Antimicrobial susceptibility data were grouped into nine clinical scenarios according to the specimen source, hospital unit, and infection type. We implemented the e-antibiogram within the EHR system at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, a tertiary pediatric hospital and analyzed e-antibiogram access sessions from March 2016 to March 2017. Results: The e-antibiogram was implemented in the EHR with over 6,000 inpatient, 4,500 outpatient, and 3,900 emergency department isolates. The e-antibiogram provides access to rolling 12-month pathogen and susceptibility data that is updated on a monthly basis. E-antibiogram access sessions increased from an average of 261 sessions per month during the first 3 months of the study to 345 sessions per month during the final 3 months. Conclusion: An e-antibiogram that was built and is updated using EHR data and adheres to national guidelines is a feasible replacement for an annual, static, manually compiled antibiogram. Future research will examine the impact of the e-antibiogram on antibiotic prescribing patterns. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic use ; Child ; Community-Acquired Infections/blood ; Community-Acquired Infections/drug therapy ; Electronic Health Records ; Health Plan Implementation ; Hospitals, Pediatric ; Humans ; Microbial Sensitivity Tests ; Tertiary Care Centers ; User-Computer Interface |
| Chemical Substances | Anti-Bacterial Agents |
| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2018-01-17 |
| Publishing country | Germany |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ISSN | 1869-0327 |
| ISSN (online) | 1869-0327 |
| DOI | 10.1055/s-0037-1615787 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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