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241. New Toolkit To Help Long-Term Care Facilities Improve Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2021 - New Toolkit To Help Long-Term Care Facilities Improve Antibiotic Prescribing AHRQ's new Toolkit … To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care offers a step-by-step approach to help facilities start … or revitalize an antibiotic stewardship program. … to help prescribers make decisions about antibiotic therapy. … stewardship teams to ensure antibiotics are used judiciously to prevent harm and keep residents safe

242. Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide provides toolkits to help nursing homes optimize their use of antibiotics … Choose the Right Antibiotic Three toolkits describe how to work with a lab and use an antibiogram. … Toolkits The toolkits cover a variety of interventions that nursing homes can use to improve antibiotic … Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection With Antibiotics … Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic Educate and Engage Residents and

243. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile Infections (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/CDI-facilitator-guide.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - Moment 2: Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Can I stop antibiotics? Can I narrow therapy or change from intravenous to oral therapy? … “Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics?” … It may not occur immediately after discontinuing antibiotics. … Slide 21 Clostridioides difficile and Antibiotics SAY: Virtually all antibiotics can increase

244. Improving Teamwork and Communication | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - viewers will be able to— Recognize the importance of seeking input from all team members when making antibiotic … change; A ssessment or appearance; and R equest for action), to improve communication related to antibiotic … Describe how to effectively communicate the potential harms of antibiotics to other health care practitioners … Communication – Facilitator Guide (DOCX, 2.2 MB) Poster – Talking With Residents and Family Members About Antibiotics

245. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbations (pdf file)
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     June 02, 2021 - associated with COPD exacerbations and are usually limited to residents with COPD who have had extensive antibiotic … to prescribing antibiotics to residents with mild COPD exacerbations.2 • Empiric treatment1,2 − … Exacerbations AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic … Antibiotic prescribing choices and their comparative C. difficile infection risks: a longitudinal case-cohort … Prophylactic antibiotic therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

246. Exhibit 7. Algorithm to identify deep and organ-space surgical site infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2018 - Surgery Description CABG Presence of both postoperative culture and postoperative antibiotics … 67.3 Absence of a postoperative culture and one of the following criteria: Postoperative antibiotics … given and any postoperative leukocyte count test drawn Postoperative antibiotics not given, but the … count is not less than 9.45 THA Presence of a postoperative culture and postoperative antibiotics

247. Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE C. difficile) Project: toolkit (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2012 - The goal of this focused case- control study is to identify the antibiotics or antibiotic classes most … The strengths and weaknesses of the four main types of antibiotic data (purchasing, orders, antibiotics … If the shift is to a more narrow antibiotic, an oral antibiotic regimen, or no antibiotics, the patient … /Class (strength of association) Review of Aggregate Antibiotic Use for Each Class of Antibiotics … patients where antibiotic order form was used, e.g., to continue or stop antibiotics Total number

248. Presentation: Program Overview
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     June 01, 2021 - Resident With a Suspected Respiratory Tract Infection Long-Term Care AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic … Bordetella is the only one of these that requires antibiotic treatment.3 ‹#› Assessment of RTI 12 … His daughter asks you for some antibiotics to make her dad’s cough go away. … Antibiotics are great at making coughs go away. … He has bacterial pneumonia and needs antibiotics. Case 3: Peter, Diagnosis?

249. Discussing Infectious Concerns About Residents | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - About Residents Effective communication may help residents and family members requesting antibiotics … understand that there are potential risks associated with antibiotic use. … Poster – Talking With Residents and Family Members About Antibiotics (PDF, 216.3 KB) Poster – Talking

250. Timely Antiobiotics for Children With Severe Sepesis or Septic Shock Technical Specifications (pdf file)
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     August 01, 2014 - Sepesis or Septic Shock Technical Specifications Q-METRIC Sepsis Measure 4, Timely Administration of Antibiotics … Sepsis and Septic Shock U18HS020516 Page 50 Submitted August 2014 Sepsis Measure 4: Timely Antibiotics … Parenteral antibiotics Administration of antibiotics via the intravenous, intramuscular or intraosseous … Antibiotics must be in one of the classes listed in Table 4-C. … OR • Antibiotics administered OR • Orders for urine, blood or spinal culture OR • Urine, blood or

251. The Integration of Hospitalists into U.S. Academic Medical Centers
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     March 07, 2014 - Yes No Why We Have to Improve Antibiotic Use Antibiotics are unlike any other drug, in that the use … We are running out of antibiotics. We won’t get new ones soon. … departments for adverse events attributed to antibiotics. 1. … It’s to ensure that there are systems and support to help every provider use antibiotics optimally. … Overuse Hospitalized patients are ill Early, appropriate antibiotics are life saving “Chagrin” factor

252. 5 Tk2 P2T8-Sample Antibiogram Phase 2 (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2014 - Name/Clinical Laboratory Name Antibiogram for dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy Gram Negative Gram Positive Antibiotic … The antibiograms will be most applicable when selecting antibiotics to treat urine infections and systemic … One antibiotic from each class is usually tested. … Antibiotics from the same class are likely to have similar resistance patterns, for example with cephalosporins … • Significant resistance to commonly used antibiotics is seen among the gram-negative organisms that

253. 5 Tk2 P2T8-Sample Antibiogram Phase 2 (doc file)
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     May 01, 2014 - Laboratory Name Antibiogram for dd/mm/yyyy to dd/mm/yyyy Gram Negative Gram Positive Antibiotic … The antibiograms will be most applicable when selecting antibiotics to treat urine infections and systemic … One antibiotic from each class is usually tested. … Antibiotics from the same class are likely to have similar resistance patterns, for example with cephalosporins … · Significant resistance to commonly used antibiotics is seen among the gram-negative organisms that

254. Best Practices Pocket Cards & Posters | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - Minimum Criteria for Initiation of Antibiotics for Suspected UTI, and When To Send a Urinalysis and Urine … Culture (8 x 11, one-sided) (PDF, 202.3 KB) Minimum Criteria for Initiation of Antibiotics for Suspected

255. Monahrq V3 Measurelist (xls file)
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     June 16, 2012 - outpatient surgery Y 3.0 OP-7 Prophylactic Antibiotic Selection for Surgical Patients Patients who … Advice to stop smoking Y 2.0 PN-5C Patients Given Initial Antibiotic(s) within 6 Hours After Arrival … Initial Antibiotic Right antibiotics given Y 2.0 PN-7 Pneumonia Patients Assessed and Given Influenza … lower blood pressure given (if needed) Y 2.0 SCIP-INF-1 Surgery Patients Who Received Preventative Antibiotic … Who Received the Appropriate Preventative Antibiotic(s) for Their Surgery Right antibiotics given Y

256. Aspiration Pneumonitis/Pneumonia (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/asp-pneumonitis-one-page.pdf
     November 01, 2019 - cultures should be considered when the diagnosis is unclear, if purulent sputum is being produced, or if antibiotic … Treatment • Hemodynamically stable patients with aspiration events o Antibiotics are not warranted … o Prophylactic antibiotics have not been shown to be helpful in preventing the development of pneumonia …  If clincial symptoms resolve, antibiotics can be discontinued. … no improvement or there is clinical worsening within the first 48–72 hours, consider a course of antibiotic

257. Develop a Culture of Safety Around Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - the benefits and risks of antibiotic use and be engaged in reducing harm associated with antibiotic … Teamwork Around Antibiotic Decision Making Identifying Targets for Improvement in Antibiotic Decision … Around Antibiotic Prescribing   Tools The tools below are designed to be used to assist the Antibiotic … prescribing and takes action when harm related to antibiotics is detected. … Antibiotic Use Commitment Poster (DOCX) Antibiotic Time Out Tool (DOCX) Identifying Antibiotic–Associated

258. PowerPoint Presentation: Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria and Urinary Tract Infections
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     November 01, 2019 - have an infection that requires antibiotics? … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Decision Making Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … requires antibiotics? … Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics?

259. 5 Tk2 T4-Concise Antibiogram Toolkit How To Enter Data Manually Into An Antibiogram Template (doc file)
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     May 01, 2014 - (%) susceptibilities based on 20 isolates should still give a general idea of how effective various antibiotics … Only include percent (%) susceptibilities for antibiotics where at least 70 percent of the isolates were … Different isolates of an organism are not always tested for susceptibilities to the exact same antibiotics … Because of this uncertainty, we recommend you only include percent (%) susceptibilities for antibiotics … So, in the example, percent (%) susceptibilities for antibiotics which about 20 or more E. coli isolates

260. Flexible Interventions to Decrease Antibiotic Overuse in Primary Care Practice: A Report from SNOCAP-USA | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2014 - The Institute of Medicine has prioritized decreasing the inappropriate use of antibiotics as one of the … use. 4,5 The Institute of Medicine has prioritized decreasing the inappropriate use of antibiotics … is the “safest” strategy; (5) time necessary for the provider to explain why antibiotics are not indicated … Parents' and physicians' views on antibiotics. Pediatrics 1997 Jun;99(6):E6. … Delayed antibiotics for respiratory infections.