TY - JOUR AU - van Daalen, Frederike V. AU - Hulscher, Marlies E. J. L. AU - Minderhoud, Cas AU - Prins, Jan M. AU - Geerlings, Suzanne E. PY - 2018 DA - 2018/01/08 TI - The antibiotic checklist: an observational study of the discrepancy between reported and actually performed checklist items JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 16 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Checklists are increasingly used to measure quality of care. Recently we implemented an antibiotic checklist in nine Dutch hospitals and showed that use of the checklist resulted in more appropriate antibiotic use. While more appropriate antibiotic use was associated with a reduction in length of stay, use of the checklist in itself was not. In the current study we explored discrepancies between reported and actually performed checklist items at the patient level to test the validity of checklist answers, to evaluate whether discrepancies between reported and actually performed checklist items could explain the lack of effect of checklist use on length of stay, and to identify missed opportunities for performance per checklist item. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2878-7 DO - 10.1186/s12879-017-2878-7 ID - van Daalen2018 ER -