BrighT STAR: A Learning Health Community

Here we grow again! 🌠

Welcome to the 8 new LIBRA sites that are now a part of our BrighT STAR LHC. LIBRA is a pilot study exploring the impact of different strategies for blood culture reduction in PICUs. #BrighTSTAR #LHC

Urmi Kumar recently presented her ongoing work with @asicksamuels.bsky.social using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to evaluate effective implementation strategies in BrighT STAR stewardship. 🤗 Congratulations on an exciting presentation! #BrighTSTAR #LHC

Our new statistician Nora used BrighT STAR data for her thesis. Through a simulation study, she highlighted thoughtful consideration of data assumptions and estimand selection for planning multi-site quality improvement studies. Welcome to the team Nora! #BrighTSTAR #LHC

June 2025 BrighT STAR Newsletter

Happy summer! Read through our new June 2025 Newsletter to stay updated on what is happening in the BrighT STAR LHC. 🌟 😄 #BrighTSTARLHC #BrighTSTAR #LHC

Our April 2025 Newsletter is here! Read through it to stay updated on what is happening in the BrighT STAR LHC. 🌟 😄
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BrighT STAR's Dr. Anna Sick-Samuels and Dr. Charlotte Woods-Hill presented at the PAS 2025 meeting last week. Congratulations on the multiple successful presentations and workshops! 🌺 ✨ 👏 #BrighTSTARLHC #PAS2025

Finishing off our PAS 2025 🌺 presentation highlights:
Dr. Charlotte Woods-Hill will be presenting, "A Sea of Data Points in an Ocean of Uncertainty: CRP and Procalcitonin in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit", on Saturday, April 26, at 2pm. 🌊 ⚕️ 😄
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At the PAS 2025 meeting this weekend, ✨ Dr. Anna Sick-Samuels and ✨ Dr. Charlotte Woods-Hill will be speaking about, "Inflammatory markers to inform antibiotic treatment: the next frontier of diagnostic stewardship?". Make sure to not miss it on Saturday, April 26, 1:00 - 2:30pm. 🌺 ⚕️ 👏
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Continuing our highlights for PAS 2025 🌺, @asicksamuels.bsky.social will be in the pro-con discussion, "Controversies in Infectious Diseases for General Pediatrics: Debates That May Change Your Practice: Inflammatory Markers in the Emergency Room". 🥼 It will be on Sat, 4/26, 10-11:30am. 😄 #PAS2025

We are highlighting presenting members of our team at PAS 2025! 🌺 On 4/26 at 7am @asicksamuels.bsky.social is presenting "Association between antibiotic treatment & clinical outcomes for patients evaluated for bacterial tracheostomy-associated resp. infection with absent inflammation on Gram stain".

PAS 2025 in Hawaii is coming up! 🌺 BrighT STAR's Dr. Anna Sick-Samuels and Dr. Charlotte Woods-Hill will be presenting! ✨ Their joint workshops will be on Sunday, 4/26, 10 - 11:30am, titled "Antimicrobial Stewardship Can be Everybody's Business: Improving Antibiotic Use in Your Specialty". ✨#PAS2025

Since the beginning of BrighT STAR, we've accomplished so much thanks to our great team of collaborators! 😄 With our Respiratory Program nearing its final phase, we are looking towards the future to continue engagement and action! ✨ #BrighTSTAR #LHC

Dell Children’s hosted @asicksamuels.bsky.social for Grand Rounds to discuss the BrighT STAR Respiratory culture stewardship program, a focus at Dell. Since 2018, Dell has been part of ✨BrighT STAR LHC✨, when they began Blood culture stewardship. We look forward to the next 7 years of collaboration!

Diagnostic Stewardship of Endotracheal Aspirate Cultures in ... : Pediatric Critical Care Medicine ied Delphi consensus process with expert panelists. Panelists conducted a “pre-survey” to itemize respiratory signs of bacterial LRTI. Round 1 included a literature summary and electronic survey of 50...

View our newly published Expert Consensus Statements from our Diagnostic Stewardship for Endotracheal Cultures in Hospitalized Children with Artificial Airways in PCCM! This highlights a starting point for future clinical decision support tools and diagnostic stewardship programs. ✨ #LHC #BrighTSTAR

Having finished up one month in 2025, take a look back at our January BrighT STAR Newsletter! ✨ #BrighTSTARLHC #LHC #BrighTSTAR

Urmi Kumar presented at the Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation in Health titled, "Perceived facilitators and barrier for implementing diagnostic stewardship of respiratory cultures in PICUs across a multicenter collaborative". ✨ Congratulations on a wonderful poster! #LHC

Introducing our very first Thought Bubble Thursday!

🎉 Urmi Kumar will be presenting a poster, "Perceived facilitators and barrier for implementing diagnostic stewardship of respiratory cultures in PICUs across a multicenter collaborative", this upcoming Monday at 4:15pm! Check out link for location/more info: academyhealth.confex.com/academyhealt...

Wondering what is new in BrighT STAR? Take a quick look at our November newsletter! #LearningHealthCommunity

Last Thursday, we held our 1st BrighT STAR Alumni call! After the success of BrighT STAR Blood and Respiratory and our expansion into Europe, we are excited to continue our mission via a larger Learning Health Community. Our work is far from over! #LHC

As a Learning Health Community, we strive to create an environment that allows institutions with common values to tackle shared problems. With BrighT STAR, we take on an academic focus, generating evidence to disseminate to institutions with the aim of helping critically ill children. #LHC