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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/acute-care/safety/index.html
June 01, 2021 - Develop a Culture of Safety Around Antibiotic Prescribing
For information on how the materials below can be integrated into institutional efforts to improve antibiotic use, please read the Toolkit Implementation Guide for Acute Care Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (PDF, 328 KB).
Presentations
Improving …
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www.ahrq.gov/es/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool6.html
March 01, 2025 - Percentage who were instructed on how to take medicines (of patients prescribed medicine). … Percentage with plan to obtain medicines (of patients prescribed medicine). … call how to take their medicines (of those who completed a postdischarge followup phone call and had prescribed
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/hospital/red/toolkit/redtool6.html
March 01, 2025 - Percentage who were instructed on how to take medicines (of patients prescribed medicine). … Percentage with plan to obtain medicines (of patients prescribed medicine). … call how to take their medicines (of those who completed a postdischarge followup phone call and had prescribed
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Michel_92.pdf
April 30, 2008 - patients are diagnosed with at least one type of chronic pain, and
approximately one-third of these are prescribed … ) patients with dementia or psychosis who may lack the mental
capacity to take their medication as prescribed … conversion to methadone, and it provides additional warnings about overdose risk
when methadone is prescribed
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety-2/vol4/Advances-Devine_83.pdf
April 06, 2008 - Implementing an Ambulatory e-Prescribing System: Strategies Employed and Lessons Learned to Minimize Unintended Consequences
Implementing an Ambulatory e-Prescribing System:
Strategies Employed and Lessons Learned to
Minimize Unintended Consequences
Emily B. Devine, PharmD, MBA; Jennifer L. Wilson-Norton, RPh, MBA…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Devine.pdf
July 01, 2003 - of whether the dispensing of a drug with a particular
strength and directions different from those prescribed
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/improve/behavior-change-slides.pptx
November 01, 2019 - Acute Care Behavior Change Theory for Antibiotic Stewardship Leaders
Making Effective Behavior Changes Around Antibiotic Prescribing
Acute Care
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving
Antibiotic Use
AHRQ Pub. No. 17(20)-0028-EF
November 2019
AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use – Acute Care
Behavior Changes …
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/press-releases/antibiotic-prescribing.html
July 01, 2022 - New Study Shows Reductions in Antibiotic Use at Ambulatory Care Clinics Participating in HHS-funded Program
Press Release Date: July 6, 2022
Antibiotic prescribing at ambulatory care clinics was cut almost in half in clinics that participated in a safety program funded by the Department of Health and Human Servic…
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsletters/e-newsletter/902.html
February 01, 2024 - Warfarin is prescribed for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation and for treatment and secondary prevention
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www.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/help-clinicians-choose-the-right-antibiotic/toolkit1-working-with-a-lab.html
October 01, 2016 - Toolkit 1. Working With Your Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing
Overview of the Toolkit
How can a lab help improve antibiotic prescribing at your nursing home?
Laboratories can use culture results from the nursing home to create a specialized annual report called an antibiogram. The antibiogram report sh…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P3O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase_3_Implementation.pdf
May 01, 2014 - Phase 3 Implementation
Advancing Excellence in Health Care www.ahrq.gov
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality HAIs
Healthcare-
Associated
Infections
PREVENT
Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit
Phase 3 Implementation
After the antibiogram has been developed, the nursing home team will need a plan for how t…
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/index.html
October 01, 2022 - Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care
The Long-Term Care Toolkit explains the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making, and has tools to support their implementation and improve prescribing in three areas: developing and improving an antibiotic stewardship program, creating a safety culture arou…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/tools/surgery/58-frontline-presentation-template.docx
June 01, 2023 - Preparation
For surgeries with a planned bowel resection, have bowel prep and oral antibiotics been prescribed
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/four-moments-completion-guide.pdf
June 01, 2021 - • Record the indication associated with each antibiotic prescribed for the resident.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P1T2-Prescribing_Clinician_Survey_Phase_1.doc
May 01, 2014 - Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit: Phase 1
Prescribing Clinician Survey
[NURSING HOME NAME] is considering implementing an antibiogram program. The use of antibiograms is common in the hospital setting but not in nursing homes. We are interested in determining how the use of an antibiogram would be viewed by the presc…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol4/Galt.pdf
January 01, 2004 - Physician Use of Hand-held Computers for Drug Information and Prescribing
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Physician Use of Hand-held Computers
for Drug Information and Prescribing
Kimberly A. Galt, Mark V. Siracuse, Ann M. Rule,
Bartholomew E. Clark, Wendy Taylor
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to develop and pilot-test an ins…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/sustainability-plan.pdf
June 01, 2021 - Some clinical measures relate to individual prescribers, such as the number of antibiotics
prescribed
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/index.html
October 01, 2022 - Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care
Welcome to the Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care. The Ambulatory Care Toolkit explains the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making and has tools to support their implementation and improve prescribing in three areas: developing and im…
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-02/cohen2-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - quality and value of the counseling session and handout as well as
new information learned about the prescribed … For events with frequencies that would not vary regardless
of the drug prescribed or dispensed, pharmacy … Examples include an
allergy to the prescribed medication, an inability to swallow the prescribed capsules … The
medication about which they were counseled was newly prescribed for 20% of the patients. … Counseling patients about prescribed medication: 12-year trends.
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www.ahrq.gov/antibiotic-use/ambulatory-care/improve/prescribing.html
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 prescribing is necessary for patient safety.
Understand how antibiotic stewardship teams can improve antibiotic prescribing practi…