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41. Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2016 - Home Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Toolkits Help Prescribing … Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection With Antibiotics Help Prescribing … Right Antibiotic Educate and Engage Residents and Family Members Help Prescribing … Working With a Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing Toolkit 2. … reviewed October 2016 Page originally created October 2016 Internet Citation: Help Prescribing

42. 5 Tk2 P1O-Comprehensive Antibiogram Toolkit Phase 1 Assessment And Planning Final (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2014 - There must also be sufficient interest in improving antibiotic prescribing to justify the use of the … Initial training of nurses and prescribing clinicians may take approximately 30 minutes. … Prescribing Clinician Interest Assessment • Assess the level of prescribing clinicians’ interest in … using antibiograms to improve antibiotic prescribing, by administering a brief survey. … • A sample prescribing-clinician survey is included as part this chapter.

43. Tk3 T5 Minimum Criteria Nursing Staff Training (doc file)
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    October 01, 2016 - But the prescribing clinician is now aware you are using this tool. … And, if calling in the report, read what the box tells you to say to the prescribing clinician. … Slide 22 UTI SBAR Form Page 2 SAY: This section is for the prescribing clinician.  … Slide 33 Suspected LRTI SBAR Page 2 SAY: Finally, we have the prescribing clinician orders. … These protocols are communicated to the prescribing clinician via this tool, and even if the prescribing

44. Toolkit 2. Common Suspected Infections: Communication and Decisionmaking for Four Infections | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2016 - The Communication and Decisionmaking for Four Infections toolkit aims to reduce inappropriate prescribing … The toolkit is intended to help prescribing clinicians and nurses work together to determine when antibiotics … The form documents information clinicians need for prescribing decisions and reflects evidence-based … Nurses should be trained on how to complete the form, and prescribing clinicians should be familiarized … Prescribing clinicians should also be trained to use order forms for treatment other than antibiotics

45. Toolkit 1. Suspected UTI SBAR Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2016 - The Suspected UTI SBAR toolkit helps nursing home staff and prescribing clinicians communicate about … suspected UTIs and facilitates appropriate antibiotic prescribing. … Introduce the Suspected UTI SBAR form to prescribing clinicians. … Successful implementation relies on prescribing clinicians. … Once prescribing clinicians become familiar with the Suspected UTI SBAR form and its value, they will

46. PowerPoint Presentation
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    October 01, 2016 - For the purposes of this presentation, the term “prescribing clinician” will encompass physicians, physician … More frightening is that prescribing antibiotics for urinary tract infections is much more difficult … But the prescribing clinician is now aware you are using this tool. … for the prescribing clinician’s review. … These protocols are communicated to the prescribing clinician via this tool, and even if the prescribing

47. The Impact of Personal Digital Assistant Devices on Medication Safety in Primary Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2005 - This paper focuses on the impact that PDA use has on prescribing errors. … The frequency of these prescribing-related errors is shown in Table 2. … Use of PDA Prescribing function. … that when given the opportunity to use traditional prescribing or e-prescribing applications on the … will improve patient safety related to prescribing.

48. Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Your Practice – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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    September 01, 2022 - , (3) tracking data to evaluate progress in improving antibiotic prescribing and reviewing the data with … The presentation titled “Why Your Practice Should Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing” assists … This type of graph can be used to track antibiotic prescribing over time. … Second, small numbers of prescribing episodes can make peer comparison interventions challenging. … To detect diagnosis shifting, measure overall antibiotic prescribing and antibiotic prescribing for a

49. Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs to Children | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    February 01, 2023 - Home News Newsletter AHRQ News Now Dentists Prescribing … Newsroom Blog Newsletter AHRQ News Now Events Dentists Prescribing … Today's Headlines: Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs to Children . … Dentists Prescribing Fewer High-Alert Drugs to Children Dental prescriptions to children for potentially … They attributed the change partly to new opioid prescribing recommendations for adults published in 2016

50. Toolkit 2: Monitor and Sustain Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2016 - One of the tools, the Quarterly Prescribing Profile, is based on a tool used in a randomized controlled … Communicating the results to staff, residents, and prescribing clinicians is helpful to show progress … Profile to report findings back to prescribing clinicians (tool 4) ( PDF  |  Word ) How Is the … Communicate results to prescribing clinicians. … Profile tool (tool 4) provides a sample format for providing a regular report of prescribing data to

51. Communicating With Patients and Families About Antibiotic Decisions – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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    September 01, 2022 - SAY: Understanding how to effectively communicate with patients about antibiotic prescribing decisions … can reduce unnecessary and potential harmful antibiotic prescribing. … If all members of the practice use clear and consistent messaging about antibiotic prescribing, including … Slide 3 Misconceptions About Antibiotic Prescribing SAY: A common scenario clinicians face is a … Perceived antibiotic expectation was a major source of antibiotic over-prescribing.

52. Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2022 - materials focus on improving antibiotic stewardship programs, engaging frontline staff in improving prescribing … building and maintaining an antibiotic stewardship program, improving the safety culture around antibiotic prescribing … building and maintaining an antibiotic stewardship program; improving the safety culture around antibiotic prescribing … antibiotic stewardship activities in your practice, learning strategies for communicating about antibiotic prescribing

53. Sustaining Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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    September 01, 2022 - the next 1–2 years · Identify targets for future antibiotic stewardship efforts based on antibiotic prescribing … to monitor changes in antibiotic prescribing over time. … In quarterly antibiotic prescription reports, the practice’s antibiotic prescribing rates were compared … Consider such a review on a monthly or at least quarterly basis, to measure antibiotic prescribing over … Consider investigating whether any other changes could have negatively impacted antibiotic prescribing

54. 5 Tk2 P1T4-Antibiogram Factsheet Phase 1 (doc file)
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    January 01, 2014 - Antibiograms display the organisms present in clinical specimens sent by the prescribing clinician (physician … The antibiogram will be formatted as a table that is easy for prescribing clinicians to read and use … when making decisions about prescribing antibiotics for residents. … The adverse consequences of inappropriate prescribing practices are serious and have become a major public

55. 5 Tk2 P3T3-Antibiogram Factsheet Phase 3 (doc file)
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    January 01, 2014 - Antibiograms display the organisms present in clinical specimens sent by the prescribing clinician (physician … The antibiogram will be formatted as a table that is easy for prescribing clinicians to read and use … when making decisions about prescribing antibiotics for residents. … The adverse consequences of inappropriate prescribing practices are serious and have become a major public

56. Improving Communication and Teamwork Around Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    November 01, 2019 - Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkits Acute Care Hospital Toolkit Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing … Four Moments Develop and Improve Stewardship Program Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing … improve communication with patients and families Explain how to work as a team to improve antibiotic prescribing

57. 5 Tk2 P1T4-Antibiogram Factsheet Phase 1 (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2014 - Antibiograms display the organisms present in clinical specimens sent by the prescribing clinician … The antibiogram will be formatted as a table that is easy for prescribing clinicians to read and use … when making decisions about prescribing antibiotics for residents. … The adverse consequences of inappropriate prescribing practices are serious and have become a major

58. 5 Tk2 P3T3-Antibiogram Factsheet Phase 3 (pdf file)
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    May 01, 2014 - Antibiograms display the organisms present in clinical specimens sent by the prescribing clinician … The antibiogram will be formatted as a table that is easy for prescribing clinicians to read and use … when making decisions about prescribing antibiotics for residents. … The adverse consequences of inappropriate prescribing practices are serious and have become a major

59. Toolkits | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2017 - Determine Whether It Is Necessary To Treat a Potential Infection With Antibiotics Help Prescribing … tracking progress toward meeting antimicrobial stewardship program goals and providing feedback to prescribing … The Minimum Criteria for Antibiotics Tool is the diagnostic guidance tool for prescribing clinicians … Toolkits To Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic for Treating an Infection Nursing … Prescribing clinicians can then use the antibiogram to help them choose the most appropriate antibiotic

60. 3 Tk1 T3-Readiness Assessment Final (doc file)
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    October 01, 2016 - lower respiratory, or skin and soft tissue infections—or the toolkit for working with a lab to improve prescribing … nursing, charge nurse(s), infection prevention consultant/practitioner, and the medical director or other prescribing … Implementation will require training for nursing staff and possibly prescribing clinicians, depending … Initial training for nurses and prescribing clinicians may take approximately 30 minutes to 2 hours. … Are there sufficient funds to make copies of materials for nurses, prescribing clinicians, and, as appropriate