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361. Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/improve/implementing-stewardship.html
     September 01, 2022 - Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice After viewing or presenting this presentation … , viewers will be able to— Describe the role of senior leadership in promoting antibiotic stewardship … Establish an Antibiotic Stewardship Team. … Identify sources of antibiotic prescription data and develop effective approaches to feedback antibiotic … Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice – Slides (PPTX, 3 MB) Implementing Antibiotic

362. 43-Pathway-Worksheet (doc file)
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     June 01, 2023 - Intraoperative Prophylactic Antibiotics Prophylactic antibiotics should be administered within 60 minutes … stewardship committee and include your pharmacist in standardizing your prophylactic antibiotic approach … Antibiotic Choice Is Independently Associated With Risk of Surgical Site Infection After Colectomy: A … Choice of Intravenous Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Colorectal Surgery Does Matter. … room Enter team decisions/notes here Tip: Standardize order sets to include antibiotic courses no

363. General Implementation Tools | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - The Gap Analysis helps identify activities that are fundamental to an antibiotic stewardship program … The Commitment Poster is a public display of your institution’s commitment to prescribing antibiotics … frequently asked questions beyond the scope of this program, such as infection control and prevention or antibiotic

364. 4 Tk1 T1-Sbar Uti Final (pdf file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK1_T1-SBAR_UTI_Final.pdf
     June 01, 2014 - ¨ No ¨ Yes ¨ No ¨ Yes Advance directives for limiting treatment related to antibiotics and/or hospitalizations … Input (check all boxes that apply) Resident WITH indwelling catheter The criteria are met to initiate antibiotics … Resident may require UA with C&S or an antibiotic.† ¨¨ Nursing home protocol criteria are NOT met. … The resident does NOT need an immediate prescription for an antibiotic, but may need additional observation … ¨ Initiate the following antibiotic Antibiotic: _________________________________ Dose: ________

365. The Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Form | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - The Four Moments of Antibiotic 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)

366. Collecting Bacterial Cultures (pdf file)
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     June 01, 2021 - indicates bacterial colonization and does not require antibiotics … local recommendations to obtain a good specimen that can be used to diagnose the infection and guide antibiotic … A contaminated specimen, which may be due to poor collection techniques, can lead to unnecessary antibiotic … AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use Collecting Bacterial Cultures

367. Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/HAP-one-page.docx
     November 01, 2019 - alternate diagnosis is identified, stop therapy for hospital-acquired pneumonia · In most cases, stop antibiotics … if viral respiratory testing is positive · Use sputum culture results to narrow therapy · Stop antibiotics … Comparison of 8 vs 15 days of antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults: a randomized … Beta lactam antibiotic monotherapy versus beta lactam-aminoglycoside antibiotic combination therapy for

368. Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/VAP-one-page.docx
     November 01, 2019 - is less likely; consider stopping therapy · Use respiratory culture results to narrow therapy · Stop antibiotics … Comparison of 8 vs 15 days of antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia in adults: a randomized … Ultra-short-course antibiotics for patients with suspected ventilator-associated pneumonia but minimal … Beta lactam antibiotic monotherapy versus beta lactam-aminoglycoside antibiotic combination therapy for

369. 45-Iscr-Pathway-Audit-Tool (xls file)
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     June 01, 2023 - Oral antibiotics completed at home 0 0 ERROR:#DIV/0! … Preoperative antibiotics administered 0 0 ERROR:#DIV/0! … Pathway Component Number of ERAS-Eligible Patients Compliance Percentage = (Column B/Column C)X100 Antibiotic … Postoperative antibiotics administered 0 0 ERROR:#DIV/0!

370. Final Progress Report: Improving the Quality of Pediatric Emergency Care Using an Electronic Medical Record Registry (pdf file)
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     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

371. Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? … After viewing or presenting this presentation, viewers will be able to— Explain why optimizing antibiotic … Understand how antibiotic stewardship teams can improve antibiotic prescribing practices in the ambulatory … Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing?  … – Slides (PPTX, 5.4 MB) Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? 

372. Tracking and Measuring Antibiotic Use | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     April 01, 2023 - Tracking and Measuring Antibiotic Use After viewing or presenting this presentation, viewers … will be able to— Learn how to collect and track antibiotic use in your long-term care setting​. … Tracking and Measuring Antibiotic Use - Slides (PPTX, 4 MB) Tracking and Measuring Antibiotic Use

373. Streptococcal Pharyngitis – Discussion Guide (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/pharyngitis-discussion-guide.docx
     September 01, 2022 - leader(s) is encouraged to ask all clinical staff which of the components of the AHRQ Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic … Also, remind staff how they can access the AHRQ Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care … How can the practice develop and implement approaches to standardize when to prescribe antibiotics for … How should the practice measure compliance with the guidelines that we develop around antibiotic prescribing … No. 17(22)-0030 September 2022 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Ambulatory Care image1

374. Acute Bronchitis – Discussion Guide (doc file)
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     September 01, 2022 - leader(s) is encouraged to ask all clinical staff which of the components of the AHRQ Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic … Also, remind staff how they can access the AHRQ Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care … How can the practice support clinicians in consistently avoiding prescribing antibiotics for acute bronchitis … How will the practice track data on acute bronchitis and antibiotic prescribing? 4. … No. 17(22)-0030 September 2022 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Ambulatory Care image1

375. Communicating Infectious Concerns With Antibiotic Prescribers | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/improve/communicate-prescribers.html
     June 01, 2021 - Communicating Infectious Concerns With Antibiotic Prescribers After viewing or presenting this … Recognize that SBAR can support the role of nurses as advocates for antibiotic stewardship. … Communicating Infectious Concerns With Antibiotic Prescribers – Slides  (PPTX, 11 MB) Communicating … Infectious Concerns With Antibiotic Prescribers – Facilitator Guide (DOCX, 3 MB) Communicating … Infectious Concerns With Antibiotic Prescribers – Video  (21 minutes) The link below is intended

376. Upper Respiratory Infection – Discussion Guide (doc file)
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     September 01, 2022 - leader(s) is encouraged to ask all clinical staff which of the components of the AHRQ Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic … Also, remind staff how they can access the AHRQ Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care … How will members of the practice develop consistent messaging to patients that antibiotic treatment is … How will we track compliance with not prescribing antibiotics for these patients? AHRQ Pub. … No. 17(22)-0030 September 2022 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Ambulatory Care image1

377. Video-Transcript-Spanish (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module1/video-transcript-spanish.docx
     June 02, 2025 - organisms in residents with catheters, and one resident developed a C. diff. infection, after receiving antibiotics … C. diff. infections most often occur when people are taking, or have just finished taking antibiotics … , so to solve these problems, we need to use antibiotics only when necessary and work on infection control … for 5 years, and I can still remember a couple of our residents who got C. diff. infections during antibiotic

378. Toolkit 1. Start an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - CDC’s Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship in Nursing Homes b. … https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/hcp/core-elements/nursing-homes-antibiotic-stewardship.html https: … A basic knowledge of antibiotics b. … Antibiotic stewardship programs in long-term care facilities. … Antibiotic use in nursing homes. 2014 Oct. Publication P-00886.

379. Community-Acquired Pneumonia (doc file)
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/CAP-one-page.docx
     November 01, 2019 - Staphylococcus aureus, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), in addition to standard CAP antibiotics … penicillin allergy · Stop azithromycin after 3 days unless treating Legionella · In most cases, stop antibiotics … Effectiveness of discontinuing antibiotic treatment after three days versus eight days in mild to moderate-severe … Short-course antibiotic treatment in acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis and COPD: a meta-analysis … Efficacy of short-course antibiotic regimens for community-acquired pneumonia: a meta-analysis.

380. Guide-Infection-Prevention (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Antibiotic Use and Resistance KEY MESSAGES ▪ Antibiotics are medications that can save lives when … ▪ Used incorrectly, antibiotics can lead to antibiotic-resistant infections. … for antibiotics. … and overuse of antibiotics can also lead to antibiotic-resistant organisms, which can threaten not … An antibiotic stewardship program is a coordinated program that promotes the appropriate use of antibiotics