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101. 6 Tk1 T1-Talking With Residents Checklist Version Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Not all respiratory tract infections need to be treated with an antibiotic. … A cough alone is typically not treated with an antibiotic. … • Antibiotics are important for treating you when you definitely have an infection, but unneeded antibiotics … • Before taking an antibiotic, it is important to understand how antibiotics could harm or hurt you … Antibiotic resistance. AHRQ Pub.

102. 6 Tk1 T1-Talking With Residents Checklist Version Final (doc file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Not all respiratory tract infections need to be treated with an antibiotic. … A cough alone is typically not treated with an antibiotic. … Antibiotics are important for treating you when you definitely have an infection, but unneeded antibiotics … Before taking an antibiotic, it is important to understand how antibiotics could harm or hurt you. … Antibiotic resistance.

103. New Study Shows Reductions in Antibiotic Use at Ambulatory Care Clinics Participating in HHS-funded Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2022 - stewardship programs—coordinated internal programs that promote the appropriate use of antibiotics. … "Antibiotics save lives—but we must use them judiciously to reduce the chance of resistance and ensure … resistance developing in microbes, rendering antibiotics useless against them. … The Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making are the critical time periods to assess the need for antibiotics … ; clinicians can use the framework whenever antibiotics are being considered for treatment.

104. Learning-Antibiotic-Adverse-Events-Form (doc file)
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     November 01, 2019 - AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use Learning From Antibiotic-Associated Adverse … Events An antibiotic-related adverse event is any event or situation involving the prescription or administration … of antibiotics that you would not want to happen again because it either caused your patient harm or … Identify the antibiotic-associated adverse event. 2. … From Antibiotic-Associated Adverse Events Form image2.jpeg image3.png image7.jpeg image8.png

105. 6 Tk1 T2-Talking With Residents Family Members Checklist Version Final (pdf file)
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     October 01, 2016 - A cough alone is typically not treated with an antibiotic. … • Before taking an antibiotic, it is important to understand how antibiotics could harm or hurt your … There are five potential health problems that occur as a result of taking an antibiotic. 1. … Antibiotic resistance. … antibiotic stewardship program to make sure that antibiotics are used only when absolutely necessary—when

106. 6 Tk1 T2-Talking With Residents Family Members Checklist Version Final (doc file)
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     October 01, 2016 - A cough alone is typically not treated with an antibiotic. … Before taking an antibiotic, it is important to understand how antibiotics could harm or hurt your family … There are five potential health problems that occur as a result of taking an antibiotic. 1. … Antibiotic resistance. … Second, we have an antibiotic stewardship program to make sure that antibiotics are used only when absolutely

107. Urinary Tract Infections
     www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/best-practices/sepsis-slides.pptx
     November 01, 2019 - infection that requires antibiotics? … for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care Sepsis Sepsis: Antibiotic Timing Antibiotics should be … infection that requires antibiotics? … . 21 AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care Sepsis Narrowing Antibiotics … have an infection that requires antibiotics?

108. The "Never Antibiotics" Diagnoses: Viral Acute Upper Respiratory Infection: the Common Cold   | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - The "Never Antibiotics" Diagnoses: Viral Acute Upper Respiratory Infection: the Common Cold   … Explain why antibiotic therapy is not useful in the treatment of viral upper respiratory tract infections … The “Never Antibiotics” Diagnoses: ​Viral Acute Upper Respiratory Infection: the Common Cold – Slides … (PPTX, 2.4 MB) The “Never Antibiotics” Diagnoses: ​Viral Acute Upper Respiratory Infection: ​the … Handouts These handouts can be given to your patients to help them understand their infection and your antibiotic

109. Pocket Cards_4 Moments (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - Ask, “Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics?” … Ask, “Have I ordered appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Moment 3 occurs on every subsequent day of antibiotic therapy. … Ask three questions, “Can I stop antibiotics? Can I narrow therapy? … The prescriber should ask, “Can I stop antibiotics?

110. 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.

111. Acute Otitis Media (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - to pediatric otolaryngology if the child is not ill appearing but has persistent symptoms despite antibiotic … Antibiotics Antibiotics Antibiotics 6 months to < 2 years Antibiotics Antibiotics Antibiotics … Antibiotics or observation 2 years and older Antibiotics Antibiotics Consider observation … AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Ambulatory Care Acute Otitis Media 2 … Antibiotic recommendations for acute otitis media and acute bacterial sinusitis: Conundrum no more.

112. Penicillin Allergy (pdf file)
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     September 01, 2022 - Do you have any allergies to any antibiotics? Which antibiotics? 2. What was the reaction? … How soon after taking the antibiotic did the reaction occur? 3. … Have you been able to take other antibiotics? Which ones? … Document antibiotics he/she tolerated previously in the chart. 5. … Rash that appeared at least 2 days after the antibiotic started.

113. The "Sometimes Antibiotics" Diagnoses: Pharyngitis | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     September 01, 2022 - The "Sometimes Antibiotics" Diagnoses: Pharyngitis After viewing or presenting this presentation … The “Sometimes Antibiotics” Diagnoses: Pharyngitis – Slides (PPTX, 2 MB) The “Sometimes Antibiotics … Handouts These handouts can be given to your patients to help them understand their infection and your antibiotic

114. Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diverticulitis and Biliary Tract Infections (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - as patients who did receive antibiotics (in blue). … have an infection that requires antibiotics? … appropriate cultures before starting antibiotics? … Ask yourself: Can I stop antibiotics? … or no antibiotics.

115. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     May 01, 2014 - * Quality Improvement for Antibiotic Prescribing Problems with taking antibiotics Drug resistance … Not only that, but the antibiotic development pipeline is dry. … Furthermore, because of concerns about antibiotic resistance, use of new agents is discouraged by the … Yet if antibiotic resistance does develop, it will limit the effective lifespan of the drug. … Other areas of antibiotic overuse are veterinary care, food production, and aquaculture.

116. Tk2 T4 Common Suspected Infections Tools To Improve Communication And Decisionmaking (doc file)
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     October 01, 2016 - Slide 2 Problems With Taking Antibiotics SAY: Slide 3 Antibiotic Resistance SAY: The sad fact … Not only that, but the antibiotic development pipeline is dry. … Yet if antibiotic resistance does develop, it will limit the effective lifespan of the drug. … Other areas of antibiotic overuse are veterinary care, food production, and aquaculture. … Our last module will then provide some guidelines on antibiotic selection.

117. Antibiotic Stewardship Program Development: Part 2 (pdf file)
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     November 01, 2019 - of antibiotics optimized. … An antibiotic time out allows providers or teams to review their patients on antibiotics to determine … if the antibiotics are needed or if they could be modified at a designated time each day. … ASPs should direct them to focus on specific antibiotics that for which use can be decreased. … An example might be, “Helping patients receive the right antibiotics when they need them.”

118. 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.

119. PowerPoint Presentation
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     June 01, 2021 - for Improving Antibiotic Use AHRQ Pub. … Forgetting to order needed cultures or diagnostic studies Prescribing antibiotics for too long Forgetting … to stop antibiotics when they are not needed Accidentally miscounting days of therapy during transitions … She is placed on intravenous antibiotics for pyelonephritis and admitted to the hospital. … 10 Describe the next patient scenario for which antibiotics may not be prescribed optimally.

120. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2022 - Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making The Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making are … Does my patient have an infection that requires antibiotics? … Before prescribing antibiotics, ensure that the patient has signs and symptoms suggesting a bacterial … patients have symptoms that are not consistent with an infection or are consistent with a viral infection; antibiotics … If antibiotics are indicated, what is the narrowest, safest, and shortest regimen I can prescribe?