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221. Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? – Slides
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     September 01, 2022 - stewardship teams can improve antibiotic prescribing practices in the ambulatory care setting 2 … stewardship activities can— Ensure members of your clinic understand best practices in the diagnosis … stewardship implementation can help navigate these concerns 17 Focus on Antibiotic Prescribing … stewardship can improve patient outcomes by ensuring the most effective antibiotic is prescribed for … patients, and only when necessary Organized antibiotic stewardship activities assist clinicians with

222. Slide 1
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     January 01, 2014 - Increased length of stay with CDI Need for ICU care if severely ill May need urinary catheter…… 27 Antibiotic … Stewardship We have met the enemy and he is us Walt Kelly ANTIBIOTIC USE AND CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE … Impact of antibiotic stewardship on CDI 30 Hospital-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus

223. ICU Assessment Response Guide (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2022 - Does your unit have an active antibiotic stewardship program/process in place? … Rationale: Antimicrobial stewardship is an important, foundational element to all infection prevention … A successful antimicrobial stewardship program https://youtu.be/e16KfoACJyY https://youtu.be/e16KfoACJyY … Therefore, understanding what type of antimicrobial stewardship process is in place in an ICU is important … Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs. https://www.cdc.gov/antibiotic-use/core-

224. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Moehring RW , Yarrington ME , Davis AE Effects of a collaborative, community hospital network for antimicrobial … stewardship program implementation. … The authors investigated expertise, data resources, and educational tools to support antimicrobial stewardship … Effects of a collaborative, community hospital network for antimicrobial stewardship program implementation … Keywords: Antimicrobial Stewardship, Antibiotics, Hospitals, Implementation, Medication Pagination

225. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Schweizer ML , Braun BI , Milstone AM Research methods in healthcare epidemiology and antimicrobial … stewardship-quasi-experimental designs. … stewardship, including study design and analytic approaches to avoid selection bias and other common … Research methods in healthcare epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship-quasi-experimental designs. … Keywords: Antimicrobial Stewardship, Patient Safety, Research Methodologies Chin DL , Bang

226. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - RW , Anderson DJ , Cochran RL Expert consensus on metrics to assess the impact of patient-level antimicrobial … stewardship interventions in acute-care settings. … Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) positively impact patient care, but metrics to assess ASP impact … Expert consensus on metrics to assess the impact of patient-level antimicrobial stewardship interventions … Keywords: Critical Care, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs), Patient

227. Sierra Vista Hospital Uses AHRQ Toolkit To Slash Catheter Use and Eliminate Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     July 01, 2024 - suggestions for appropriate catheter use; guidance for proper insertion, maintenance, and renewal; and antimicrobial … stewardship.

228. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - Safety, Medical Errors, Quality of Care Kronman MP , Hersh AL , Gerber JS Identifying antimicrobial … stewardship targets for pediatric surgical patients. … Identifying antimicrobial stewardship targets for pediatric surgical patients. … Keywords: Antibiotics, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Children/Adolescents, Children/Adolescents, Surgery

229. Infectious Complications Related to the Catheter Other Than CAUTI | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2017 - of stay with CDI Need for ICU care if severely ill May need urinary catheter…… Slide 28 Antibiotic … Stewardship ANTIBIOTIC USE AND CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE We have met the enemy and he is us Walt Kelly … Slide 30 Impact of Antibiotic Stewardship on CDI Image: Screen shot of a line chart showing decrease

230. Learn Strategies for Communicating With Colleagues, Patients, and Families About Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2022 - your practice's efforts to improve antibiotic use, read the Implementation Guide for Ambulatory Care Antibiotic … Stewardship (PDF, 708 KB)  Improving antibiotic use should be viewed as a patient safety issue. … The presentations and tools below are pertinent to the Antibiotic Stewardship Team, as well as clinicians

231. When Do You Need An Antibiotic? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
     www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/reduce/antibiotic-brochure.html
     March 01, 2017 - Antimicrobial stewardship, or making better choices about when to use antibiotics, is one component of

232. When Do You Need An Antibiotic? (pdf file)
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     March 01, 2017 - Antimicrobial stewardship, or making better choices about when to use antibiotics, is one component

233. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2024 - There is limited scholarship regarding adapting and implementing antibiotic stewardship principles in … The authors discussed utilizing the core elements for outpatient antibiotic stewardship as a framework … Antibiotic stewardship in direct-to-consumer telemedicine: translating interventions into the virtual … Keywords: Antibiotics, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Medication, Telehealth, Health Information Technology … Keywords: Antibiotics, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Medication, Hospital Discharge Pagination

234. Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Hospital Units: Implementation Guide | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     October 01, 2015 - Appropriate Catheter Use     Proper Catheter Insertion and Maintenance     Prompt Catheter Removal     Antimicrobial … Stewardship     Tools Measurement     Measuring Culture     Process Measures     Outcome Measures

235. Improving Guidelines for Nursing Home-Associated Viral Respiratory Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     December 01, 2023 - Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Modules .

236. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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     May 01, 2014 - PowerPoint Presentation Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Determine Whether To Treat … Prescribing Problems with taking antibiotics Drug resistance and lack of new antibiotics Approaches to antimicrobial … stewardship Description of the tools and how to use them Additional information about suspected infections … * Approaches to Antimicrobial Stewardship Encourage research into new classes of antibiotics Reduce

237. AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources (pdf file)
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     May 01, 2022 - The toolkit also provides guidance on developing and improving an antibiotic stewardship program, creating … tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/ index.html Toolkit for Reduction of Clostridum difficile Infections Through Antimicrobial … Stewardship assists hospital staff and leadership in developing an effective antimicrobial stewardship … antibiotic stewardship programs to help them use and prescribe antibiotics appropriately. … The toolkit also provides guidance on developing and improving an antibiotic stewardship program, creating

238. AHRQ Patient Safety Tools and Resources (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2021 - Web: ahrq.gov/hospitalqitoolkit/ Toolkit for Reduction of Clostridum difficile Infections Through Antimicrobial … Stewardship assists hospital staff and leadership in developing an effective antimicrobial stewardship … The toolkit also provides guidance on developing and improving your antibiotic stewardship program, … Web: ahrq.gov/psafetyltcmodules Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide provides field-tested, … evidence-based modules that can help nursing homes develop antibiotic stewardship programs to help

239. Patient Concerns Not Compromised When Practices Switch Ownership From Physicians to Systems | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     January 01, 2018 - Implementing antimicrobial stewardship in long-term care settings: an integrative review using a human

240. Learn Best Practices for Common Infectious Syndromes | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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     June 01, 2021 - institutional efforts to improve antibiotic use, read the Implementation Guide for Long-Term Care Antibiotic … Stewardship Programs (PDF, 401.5 KB).