Facilitation as an effective strategy to reduce excessive antibiotic prophylaxis in Children's hospitals: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial

Authors

• Virginia McKay, Washington University in St. Louis
• Sara Malone, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Emmanuel Tetteh, Washington University in St. Louis
• Jacqueline Saito, Children's National Hospital
• Shawn Rangel, Boston Children's Hospital
• Kelly Bono, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Jade Tao, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Jingxia Liu, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Harry Obeng, Washington University in St. Louis
• Andrew Atkinson, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Jason G Newland, The Ohio State University

Journal

Implementation Science

Publication Date

10-21-2025

Volume

20

Issue

1

First Page

45

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1186/s13012-025-01455-2

Rights and Permissions

McKay, V., Malone, S., Tetteh, E. et al. Facilitation as an effective strategy to reduce excessive antibiotic prophylaxis in Children’s hospitals: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial. Implementation Sci 20, 45 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-025-01455-2 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Recommended Citation

McKay, Virginia; Malone, Sara; Tetteh, Emmanuel; Saito, Jacqueline; Rangel, Shawn; Bono, Kelly; Tao, Jade; Liu, Jingxia; Obeng, Harry; Atkinson, Andrew; and Newland, Jason G, "Facilitation as an effective strategy to reduce excessive antibiotic prophylaxis in Children's hospitals: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial." Implementation Science. 20, 1. 45 (2025).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/6723

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)