A Quality Improvement Project Focused on Improving First Dose Antibiotic Timeliness for Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients with Severe Sepsis.

Unlabelled: Recommended time to start administration of first dose antibiotics for sepsis patients is 60 minutes from time 0. Institution-specific data revealed that only one-quarter of severe sepsis patients were meeting this goal when measured from the time of provider order entry. Reliance on a pneumatic tube system for first-dose antibiotic delivery was deemed largely responsible for this finding.