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161. Toolkits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2017 - Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic Educate and Engage Residents and … The toolkits cover a variety of interventions that nursing homes can use to improve antibiotic use. … use by getting residents the right antibiotics, when they need them. … to improving antibiotic use is making sure residents only receive antibiotics when they need them. … should be used or understand the risks associated with antibiotic use.

162. PowerPoint Presentation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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     November 01, 2019 - Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? 2. … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? 2. … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics?

163. The Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Form | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - Decision Making Form A facility's antibiotic stewardship team is encouraged to use Four Moments … of Antibiotic Decision Making Form to review 5–10 residents each month. … The Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Form  (PDF, 319 KB) Completion Guide for the Four Moments … of Antibiotic Decision Making Form  (PDF, 265.3 KB) Page last reviewed … https://www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/four-moments/review-form.html  

164. Acute Care Behavior Change Theory for Antibiotic Stewardship Leaders
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     November 01, 2019 - antibiotics. … – Antibiotic Prescribing 7 Drivers of Suboptimal Antibiotic Prescribing Fear of inadequate antibiotic … Behavior Changes – Antibiotic Prescribing 11 Antibiotics Are Our Parrot St. … broad empiric coverage Are worried about stopping MRSA or Pseudomonas coverage Want to keep antibiotics … – Antibiotic Prescribing

165. Antibiotic Audit Tool | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - This tool will help your safety program team understand how appropriately you are using prophylactic antibiotics … (Leave the Antibiotic 2 subsection blank if only one antibiotic was used throughout the case.) … (Leave the Antibiotic 2 subsection blank if only one antibiotic was used throughout the case.) … Question 15: Assess if the antibiotics clindamycin or cefotetan were redosed during the case. … If the antibiotics were redosed, determine and document if the difference in time between the first antibiotic

166. Choosing a Stewardship Intervention and Measuring Change (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - stewardship interventions can occur before antibiotics are prescribed (pre-prescription interventions … ) and after antibiotics have been started (post-prescription interventions) … started AND to reassess the need for continued antibiotics after they are started … of antibiotic therapy  Use of guideline-concordant antibiotics  Clostridioides difficile LabID events … • Pocket cards distributed to staff indicating minimum criteria for starting antibiotics.

167. Program-Dev-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
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     June 01, 2021 - The use of antibiotics is not without consequences. … This is one of the most distressing features of antibiotics. … You meet with your antibiotic stewardship team to brainstorm problems related to antibiotics in your … At this point, she has been on antibiotics for 8 days. … · Length of therapy · Cost of antibiotics · Use of guideline-concordant antibiotics · Clostridioides

168. PowerPoint Presentation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia
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     November 01, 2019 - of Antibiotic Decision Making Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … that requires antibiotics? … that requires antibiotics? … that requires antibiotics?

169. 5 Tk1 T5-Sample Policy Letter Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Sample Policy Letter [NAME OF NURSING HOME] RE: Antibiogram Policy [DATE] Antibiotics are among … Unnecessary prescribing practices by clinicians and overuse of newer, broad-spectrum antibiotics when … clinical specimens sent for laboratory testing and the susceptibility of each organism to an array of antibiotics … Use of antibiograms helps reduce reliance on broad-spectrum antibiotics as initial therapy and leads … to fewer clinical failures of antibiotics that are first prescribed.

170. 5 Tk1 T5-Sample Policy Letter Final (doc file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Working With a Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing Tool 5. … Sample Policy Letter [NAME OF NURSING HOME] RE: Antibiogram Policy [DATE] Antibiotics are among the most … Unnecessary prescribing practices by clinicians and overuse of newer, broad-spectrum antibiotics when … Use of antibiograms helps reduce reliance on broad-spectrum antibiotics as initial therapy and leads … to fewer clinical failures of antibiotics that are first prescribed.

171. About the Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     March 01, 2023 - truly needed and using the right antibiotic for each infection. … Antibiotic stewardship can also save money. … When examining the cost of antibiotic medications alone, one study showed that antibiotic stewardship … Antibiotics are one of the most commonly prescribed medications in nursing homes and overuse of antibiotics … Get Smart About Antibiotics Week: November 18–24, 2013.

172. Approach to Residents With Reported Penicillin Allergy (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - Consider a different beta-lactam antibiotic or medication to help with symptoms if the same antibiotic … require hospitalization should be evaluated by an allergy specialist before considering beta-lactam antibiotics … High risk These residents should NOT receive penicillin or other beta-lactam antibiotics in the absence … diarrhea) � Headache � Itching without rash � Yeast infection Laboratory abnormality related to antibiotics … evidence supporting the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation for prescribing cephalosporin antibiotics

173. Funding HAI and Antibiotic Resistance Research | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2021 - Home Healthcare-Associated Infections Program Funding HAI and Antibiotic … Improving the appropriate use of antibiotics, including promoting antibiotic stewardship. … AHRQ funding is available for research on HAI prevention and combating antibiotic-resistant bacteria. … Two grants are available: Large Research Projects for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB … November 2021 Page originally created April 2019 Internet Citation: Funding HAI and Antibiotic

174. Mindfulness: Engaging Frontline Providers in Antimicrobial Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - __ Yes __ No Slide 5 Why We Have to Improve Antibiotic Use Antibiotics are unlike any other … We are running out of antibiotics. We won’t get new ones soon. … visits to emergency departments for adverse events attributed to antibiotics. … restrictions for 5 antibiotics: Ticar/clav, Imipenem, Aztreonam, Cefta and Cipro. … It’s to ensure that there are systems and support to help every provider use antibiotics optimally.

175. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Community-Associated Lower Respiratory Tract Conditions (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - As I have more clinical and microbiologic data available can I stop antibiotics, can I narrow antibiotics … , or can I change from intravenous to oral antibiotics? … have an infection that requires antibiotics?” … for the continued need for antibiotics is needed. … can be treated for a 5-day course of antibiotics.

176. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
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     November 01, 2019 - my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … of Antibiotic Decision Making Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … have an infection that requires antibiotics? … have an infection that requires antibiotics? … have an infection that requires antibiotics?

177. Antibiotic Stewardship FAQs | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2017 - Does prescribing prophylactic antibiotics help prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs)? … How does one have an appropriate conversation with the medical staff about placing residents on antibiotics … Consider what factors or pressures may be driving the physician’s repeated rounds of cultures and antibiotics … that overuse of antibiotics can cause harm to the resident, leading to C. diff infections. … Overuse of antibiotics can be harmful to you and makes them less effective later when antibiotics really

178. Acute Care ASP Development
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     November 01, 2019 - Program for Improving Antibiotic Use AHRQ Pub. … Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) Committee Decisions regarding formulary and restriction status of antibiotics … consults for patients with complicated infectious disease problems or for patients receiving certain antibiotics … Review ASP responses to antibiotic shortages. … guidelines Consider guidelines for select antibiotics Those that are expensive, highly toxic, and/or

179. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Cellulitis and Skin and Soft Tissue Abscesses – Slides
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     September 01, 2022 - that requires antibiotics? … Antibiotic Decision Making 4 Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … infection that requires antibiotics? … infection that requires antibiotics? … infection that requires antibiotics?

180. PowerPoint Presentation
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     November 01, 2019 - that requires antibiotics? … Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … that requires antibiotics? … that requires antibiotics? … Use – Acute Care 21 C. difficile and Antibiotics Virtually all antibiotics can increase the propensity