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RESULTS: Across all sites and months, the median of the monthly relative blood culture rate (ratio of administrative- to site-derived data) was 0.96 (Q1: 0.77, Q3: 1.24). The administrative-derived data produced an estimate of blood culture reduction over time that was attenuated toward the null compared with site-derived data. CONCLUSIONS: Administrative data on blood culture use from the PHIS database correlates unpredictably with hospital-derived PICU data. 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