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Clinical decision support (CDS) that reminds emergency department (ED) providers to obtain blood cultures when ordering IV antibiotics may lead to improvements in this process measure.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This was a multicenter causal impact analysis comparing timely blood culture collections prior to IV antibiotics for adult ED patients 1\u00a0year before and after a CDS intervention implementation in the electronic health record. A Bayesian structured time-series model compared daily timely blood cultures collected compared to a forecasted synthetic control. Mixed effects models evaluated the impact of the intervention controlling for confounders.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The analysis included 54\u200a538 patients over 2\u00a0years. In the baseline phase, 46.1% had blood cultures prior to IV antibiotics, compared to 58.8% after the intervention. Causal impact analysis determined an absolute increase of 13.1% (95% CI 10.4\u201315.7%) of timely blood culture collections overall, although the difference in patients with a sepsis diagnosis or who met CDC Adult Sepsis Event criteria was not significant, absolute difference 8.0% (95% CI \u22120.2 to 15.8). Blood culture positivity increased in the intervention phase, and contamination rates were similar in both study phases.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>CDS improved blood culture collection before IV antibiotics in the ED, without increasing overutilization.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>A simple CDS alert increased timely blood culture collections in ED patients for whom concern for infection was high enough to warrant IV antibiotics.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1093\/jamia\/ocac115","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,25]],"date-time":"2022-07-25T15:13:05Z","timestamp":1658761985000},"page":"1705-1714","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Clinical decision support improves blood culture 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