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461. 5 Tk2 P3T2-Sample Procedures Phase 3 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P3T2-Sample_Procedures_Phase_3.pdf
     May 01, 2014 - Antibiotics are among the most commonly prescribed pharmaceuticals in long-term-care settings, yet … reports indicate that a high proportion of antibiotic prescriptions are inappropriate. … of antibiograms can help reduce inappropriate prescribing and lead to fewer clinical failures of antibiotics

462. 5 Tk2 T2-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit Getting Started (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_T2-Concise_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Getting_Started.pdf
     May 01, 2014 - The laboratory that processes your cultures will have a record of the antibiotic susceptibility tests … The remaining columns of the antibiogram are the antibiotics that were tested and the organisms’ susceptibilities … The remaining columns of the antibiogram are the antibiotics that were tested and the organisms’ susceptibilities … Of the E coli cultures tested against ciprofloxacin, 75 percent were susceptible to the antibiotic. … encourage prescribing clinicians to order more cultures for suspected infections when prescribing empiric antibiotics

463. Microbiologic-Specimens-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/microbiologic-specimens-facilitator-guide.docx
     June 01, 2021 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use 1 Appropriate Collection of Microbiologic Specimens … a good microbiologic specimen is important to determine whether a resident needs to be treated with antibiotics … Biofilm formation · A biofilm is a layer of slime secreted by bacteria that protects them from antibiotics … Next, she is started on broad-spectrum antibiotics. … She continues on broad-spectrum antibiotics because culture results are not available to tailor the therapy

464. AHRQ Grantee Profiles | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2025 - More >>   Investigating Interventions to Reduce Unsafe Use of Antibiotics Larissa Grigoryan, M.D., Ph.D … With AHRQ’s help, my goal is to improve antibiotic use and minimize antimicrobial resistance.” … More >>   Reducing Harms from Unsafe Use of Antibiotics and Preventing the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance … Medicine “Without funding from agencies such as AHRQ, I could not conduct this kind of research on antibiotic

465. 5 Tk1 T2-Working With A Lab Final (doc file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Help Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic Toolkit 1. … Working With a Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing 3. … and are clinically useful · Presents data as the percentage of isolates that are susceptible to each antibiotic … Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Help Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic Toolkit 1/Tool … 0006-6-EF October 2016 Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Help Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic

466. NICU Family Information Packet, Appendix B, Feeding Tubes (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/hospital/nicu_toolkit/nicupacket-apb-tubes.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - – Stomal infection requiring antibiotics (45%). … ■ Send swab for culture and treat with appropriate topical or systemic antibiotics. … Diarrhea ■ Antibiotic therapy ■ Infusion rate/ volume too high ■ Gastroenteritis ■ Low serum albumin … ■ Review antibiotic therapy. ■ Obtain stool sample for culture.

467. Urine Culturing Stewardship in the ICU Setting Facilitator Notes (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/urine-culturing-notes.docx
     April 01, 2022 - They can contribute to misdiagnosis, overtreatment with antibiotics, multidrug-resistant infections, … Perhaps the most obvious harms are allergies and adverse effects (like renal failure) from antibiotics … Also, there is Clostridioides difficile diarrhea, the harm and discomfort of central access for antibiotics … In this picture, the patient’s arm shows an antibiotic rash. … several harms occurred due to inappropriate culturing of her urine: she was started on unnecessary antibiotics

468. 5 Tk1 T2-Working With A Lab Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Help Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic Toolkit … Working With a Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing Tool 2. … Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Help Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic Toolkit 1/Tool … are clinically useful • Presents data as the percentage of isolates that are susceptible to each antibiotic … 6-EF October 2016 Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Help Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic

469. Gap Analysis for MRSA Prevention (Hospital-Level) (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/167-hospital-level-gap-analysis.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - Does the hospital have an antibiotic stewardship program or processes to reduce use of unnecessary antibiotics …  Pre-prescription approval  Daily time-out by team to assess antibiotic use  Post-prescription … review and feedback by the antibiotic stewardship program  Rounds with the antibiotic stewardship … Weekly_7: Off Monthly_7: Off Quarterly_8: Off Other_14: Off Yes_29: Off No_36: Off Rounds with the antibiotic … use: Off Post-prescription review and feedback by the antibiotic stewardship program: Off

470. Federal Interagency Workgroup: Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality in Healthcare (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/diagnostic/IAWG-October2024-mtg.pdf
     January 17, 2025 - Elements for Hospital Diagnostic Excellence o Based on the successful models of Core Elements of Antibiotic … /hcp/core-elements/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/hcp/core-elements/index.html https:/ … There are concerns that this testing may lead to inappropriate antibiotic use. … decision support into routine EHR (Epic) to support diagnosis, in this case, specific to infections/antibiotics … pneumonia and urinary tract infection diagnoses to predict risk of resistant bacteria and optimize antibiotic

471. 2021: An AHRQ Year in Review | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2022 - Our AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use was evaluated in more than 400 acute care hospitals … long-term care facilities, and nearly 400 ambulatory care practices and found to significantly reduce antibiotic … Participating hospitals, for example, reduced total antibiotic use by an average of 30.3 days of antibiotic

472. Acute Bronchitis (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/bronchitis-one-pager.pdf
     September 01, 2022 - Treatment • Antibiotic treatment of acute bronchitis is not recommended because it does not impact … either the severity or duration of cough.1 • Antibiotic treatment of acute bronchitis does not prevent … 2 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic

473. Implementing Your Surgical Site Infection Prevention Bundle: Facilitator Notes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2020 - for the antibiotic. … Why aren’t patients receiving appropriate redosing of antibiotics? … No care provider is intentionally ignoring evidence about antibiotics and surgical site infections. … Ask: Do providers understand that antibiotic A needs to be redosed every 4 hours or that antibiotic … If antibiotics redosing is required, is the medication readily available?

474. Data Reveal Uneven Impact of COVID-19 on Urban, Rural Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     May 01, 2024 - Registration Open for Free Safety Program To Improve Antibiotic Use in Telemedicine . … Registration Open for Free Safety Program To Improve Antibiotic Use in Telemedicine The AHRQ Safety Program … for Telemedicine: Improving Antibiotic Use is recruiting primary and urgent care practices and retail … The program will begin in June and provide evidence-based guidance to improve antibiotic prescribing … Antibiotic stewardship interventions for urinary tract infections in outpatient settings: a narrative

475. Long-term Care Resources | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     November 01, 2021 - technical reviews about long-term care Resources Long-term care resources Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic … Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Related Content Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic

476. The Challenge and Potential for Assuring Quality Health Care for the 21st Century | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2018 - Examples of overuse of services include: Antibiotics . … In that year, 12 million antibiotic prescriptions were written during office visits for colds, upper … These prescriptions accounted for one out of every five antibiotic prescriptions to adults in that year … reactions, and contributes to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant pathogens. … the need for a second antibiotic course within 24 days of the initial therapy, was associated with a

477. Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/UTI-one-page.docx
     November 01, 2019 - indwelling catheter is in place, remove and replace it before sending UA and culture · Do not start antibiotics … symptoms Treatment Assess prior urine culture data, as previous susceptibility patterns can help guide antibiotic … Asymptomatic bacteriuria treatment is associated with a higher prevalence of antibiotic resistant strains

478. Assess-Resident-Uti-Facilitator-Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/assess-resident-UTI-facilitator-guide.docx
     June 01, 2021 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use 1 Assessment of the Resident With a Suspected Urinary … She is happy that she was not exposed to any unnecessary antibiotics, and that she had a delicious piece … have a UTI, it is uncommon for a urine culture to not grow bacteria if they were not already receiving antibiotics … The nitrofurantoin is stopped and continuing antibiotics is unnecessary and can worsen her yeast infection … repeating the workup or prescribing different antibiotics, consider other reasons for the resident’s

479. Final Progress Report: Improving the Quality of Pediatric Emergency Care Using an Electronic Medical Record Registry (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-07/alpern-report.pdf
     January 01, 2024 - We investigated whether patient race/ethnicity was associated with differences in antibiotic prescribing … Of 39,445 pediatric ED encounters that met inclusion criteria, 2.6% (95% CI 2.4%, 2.8%) received antibiotics … and other non-Hispanic (aOR 0.68; 0.52, 0.87) children remained less likely to receive unnecessary antibiotics … Racial and Ethnic Differences in Antibiotic Use for Viral Illness in Emergency Departments. … Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Antibiotic Prescribing for Emergency Department Visits With Viral Diagnoses

480. Section 6, Tables 5 to 7 (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/pqmp/measures/acute/chipra-0230-section-6-tables-5-7.pdf
     June 02, 2025 - 2 100% 1.00 Antibiotics administered at referring hospital 3 67% 0.00 Severe sepsis 7 … 86% 0.72 Septic shock 7 86% 0.70 Hospital #2 Timely antibiotics 3 67% 0.00 Antibiotics administered … 4 100% 1.00 Antibiotics administered at referring hospital 4 100% 1.00 Severe sepsis … 4 100% 1.00 Septic shock 4 100% 1.00 All Sites Timely antibiotics 9 89% 0.00 Antibiotics … (within 60 minutes of diagnosis) 2 100% 1.00 Hospital #2 Time of Antibiotics (