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www.ahrq.gov/topics/a.html
September 04, 2025 - Adverse Drug Events (ADE)   Adverse Events   Alcohol Use   Ambulatory Care and Surgery   Antibiotics   Antimicrobial … Stewardship   Asthma   Atención médica   Autism   Awards
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/167-hospital-level-gap-analysis.pdf
June 02, 2025 -  Weekly 
 Monthly 
 Quarterly 
 Other 
The last few questions are about antimicrobial stewardship … Does the hospital have an antibiotic stewardship program or processes to reduce use of 
unnecessary antibiotics … Which of the following antimicrobial stewardship interventions are implemented? … stewardship program 
 Rounds with the antibiotic stewardship program 
 Order sets for common infectious … The last few questions are about antimicrobial stewardship activities.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P2T5-Antibiogram_Tool_Phase_2.xlsm
January 01, 2016 - No. 17-0006-7-EF
					Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide					        2016 October
&A	Page … Unselect All
Submit
Select All
Step 02 - Data Entry
	Bacteria	Antibiotic	QA
	B1	A0			Nursing Home Antimicrobial … Stewardship Guide
	B1	A0			Escherichia coli
	B1	A0					Culture: Blood		Culture: Urine		Culture: Sputum … Stewardship Guide
				B1	B2	B3	B4	B5	B6	B7	B8	B9	B9
		A0	Antibiotic Tested	Escherichia coli	Klebsiella … Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide		Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK2_T3-Sample_Monthly_Summary_Reports_Final.xlsx
October 01, 2016 - Summary UTI
	Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
	Implement, Monitor, and Sustain a Program
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/012-blood-culture-practices-webinar.docx
October 01, 2024 - Slide 3
	Fundamental Best Practices
SAY:
In addition to the four main strategies, Antibiotic Stewardship … and then further refined by a multidisciplinary team at Johns Hopkins, including representatives from antimicrobial … stewardship, hospital epidemiology, critical care, hospital medicine, surgery, medical microbiology, … The Infection Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship committees are also included in reports, along
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK3_T1-Sample_Policy_final.docx
October 01, 2016 - THE NURSING HOME WILL USE, I.E., THE FAXES, THE LETTER, THE WEB APP, OR THE TRAINING]
Nursing Home
Antimicrobial … Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat
Toolkit 3. … Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat	Toolkit 3/Tool 1	2
Regardless … No. 17-0006-5-EF
October 2016
Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/123-mrsa-toolkit-implementation-guide.docx
October 01, 2024 - Other Best Practices for MRSA Prevention 
Antimicrobial Stewardship and Blood Culture Stewardship are … Antibiotic stewardship promotes the selection of the right drug and the right dose at the right time … Consequently, antibiotic stewardship and blood culture stewardship are critical for MRSA prevention. … The field of antibiotic stewardship addresses safety and overuse concerns associated with antibiotic … Presentation: Antibiotic Stewardship and MRSA Reduction
· This presentation outlines the goals of antibiotic
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK3_T4-Letter_to_Prescribing_Clinicians.docx
October 01, 2016 - NAME]
RECIPIENT ADDRESS
CITY, STATE ZIP]
Re:	Change in protocol regarding three common infections and antibiotic … stewardship
Dear Dr. … Nursing Home
Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat
Toolkit 3. … Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat	Toolkit 3/Tool 4	2
Regardless … No. 17-0006-5-EF
October 2016
Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/TK2_T4_Common_Suspected_Infections_Tools_To_Improve_Communication_and_Decisionmaking.docx
October 01, 2016 - Slide 1
Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat
Toolkit 2. … Slide 9
	Approaches to Antimicrobial Stewardship
SAY:
Here, we are pointing out national initiatives … Slide 10
	Approaches to Antimicrobial Stewardship (continued)
SAY:
[IF PARTICIPANTS ASK, OTHERWISE … Respiratory Infection
SAY:
	Slide 33
	Suspected Skin/SoftTissue Infection
SAY:
	Slide 34
Nursing Home Antimicrobial … Stewardship Guide
Determine Whether To Treat	Toolkit 2/Tool 4	2
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-grigoryan.html
November 01, 2024 - Antibiotic stewardship is vitally important to both individual and public health because inappropriate … professor of family and community medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, is developing and testing antibiotic … stewardship interventions, making healthcare safer.  … Building on her antibiotic stewardship research, Dr.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/008-antibiotic-stewardship-slides.pptx
October 01, 2022 - 1
Educational Objectives
Understand the goals of antibiotic stewardship. … Stewardship
5
What Is Antibiotic Stewardship? … Stewardship
7
Association Between Antibiotic Stewardship and MRSA Reduction 
37 percent reduction … Antibiotic Stewardship on a Unit
Identify unit-based champions for improving antibiotic stewardship. … Stewardship
Antibiotic Time Out Tool16
Download this tool from the AHRQ Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkit
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/making-healthcare-safer/mhs3/practices.html
April 01, 2020 - Screening Tools 
 Patient Monitoring Systems 
 
 Clostridioides difficile  Infection  ( PDF , 3.6 MB) 
 
 Antimicrobial … Stewardship 
 Hand Hygiene 
 Environmental Cleaning and Decontamination 
 Surveillance 
 Testing 
 Multicomponent
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/3_TK2_T2-Antibiotic_Use_Tracking_Sheet_Final.doc
October 01, 2016 - Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Toolkit 2. Monitor and Sustain Stewardship
Tool 2.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/index.html
November 01, 2021 - Omissions of Care in Nursing Homes 
 Pressure Ulcers  
 Quality of Life 
 TeamSTEPPS 
 Nursing Home Antimicrobial … Stewardship Guide 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Related Content 
 
 Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa/035-importance-mrsa-prevention-notes.docx
October 01, 2024 - stewardship and optimization of blood culture practices, which supplement the four key strategies to … Slide 26
	Fundamental Best Practices
SAY:
Antibiotic Stewardship and Blood Culture Stewardship are … Antibiotic stewardship aims to optimize the use of antibiotics by ensuring antibiotics are prescribed … Antibiotic stewardship promotes processes to select the right drug with the right dose at the right time … Consequently, antibiotic stewardship and blood culture stewardship are crucial for MRSA prevention.
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools.html
June 01, 2024 - care units:  Toolkit for Preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs Long-term care facilities: Nursing Home Antimicrobial … Stewardship Guide Toolkit To Reduce CAUTI and Other HAIs in Long-Term Care Facilities Medical devices
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/mrsa-2/004-ss-antimicrobial-prophylaxis-part-2.pptx
April 01, 2025 - referral to and collaboration with an allergist for presurgical evaluation
Local partners (allergy, antimicrobial … stewardship, pharmacy) to establish protocols and procedures
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Approach to Penicillin Allergy Label … Stewardship, Allergy
Cefazolin Can Be Safely Administered With Allergy25 
AHRQ Safety Program for … PMID: 36122788.
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Antimicrobial Stewardship
Pharmacy
Allergy/Immunology
Anesthesiology
Partnerships … Stewardship to change the pre-op antimicrobial prophylaxis 
Specify vancomycin as the antimicrobial
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/6_TK1_T2-Talking_with_Residents_Family_Members_Final.docx
October 01, 2016 - Nursing Home
Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
Educate & Engage Residents, Family
Toolkit To Educate and … Second, we have an antibiotic stewardship program to—
Make sure that antibiotics are used only when absolutely … Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide	Engaging Residents,
Educate & Engage Residents, Family	Family … No. 17-0006-8-EF
October 2016
Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide	Engaging Residents,
Educate
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/safety/index.html
January 01, 2024 - institutional efforts to improve antibiotic use, read the  Implementation Guide for Long-Term Care Antibiotic … Stewardship Programs  (PDF, 402 KB). … System To Improve Antibiotic Safety 
 
   
 Tools 
 The six tools below are designed to assist the Antibiotic … Stewardship Team and frontline providers in creating a safety culture that values appropriate antibiotic
                                     
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www.ahrq.gov/diagnostic-safety/resources/issue-briefs/dxsafety-dx-stewardship5.html
August 01, 2024 - limited examples but not within the broad scope of diagnostic testing overall. 56-59  For example, antimicrobial … stewardship teams have been involved in interpreting and communicating test results for rapid microbiology