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1. Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   September 01, 2022 - Learn Best Practices Develop and Improve Stewardship Activities Improving Antibiotic Prescribing … Long-Term Care Toolkit Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing … Understand how antibiotic stewardship teams can improve antibiotic prescribing practices in the ambulatory … Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing?  … – Slides (PPTX, 5.4 MB) Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? 

2. Create a Culture of Safety Around Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   January 01, 2024 - Learn Best Practices Create a Culture of Safety Around Antibiotic Prescribing … Both frontline staff and prescribing clinicians should be encouraged to understand both the benefits … The five presentations below are designed to help effect change in behaviors around antibiotic prescribing … how to present antibiotic use as a patient safety issue, improve communication and teamwork around prescribing … , identify and address problems around antibiotic prescribing, and motivate appropriate prescribing.

3. 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 - In ambulatory care, reaching consensus on how a practice will manage antibiotic prescribing … can help create a standard approach to prescribing so patients receive the same message from all clinicians … and a facilitator guide, and are designed to improve communication and consensus around antibiotic prescribing … Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? … are designed to assist the practice in creating a safety culture that values appropriate antibiotic prescribing

4. Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2022 - Creating a culture of safety around antibiotic prescribing in your facility. ​ … Full Diagram Create a culture of safety around antibiotic prescribing Develop and improve your … Apply the Four Moments framework for all patients receiving antibiotics Improve antibiotic prescribing … Prescribing Clinicians: at a minimum, it is recommended that you review the content in “Create a culture … of safety around antibiotic prescribing,” “Learn best practices for common infectious syndromes,” and

5. Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Acute Care Hospitals | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2022 - Four Moments Develop and Improve Stewardship Program Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing … Creating a culture of safety around antibiotic prescribing in your hospital. … Apply the Four Moments framework for all patients receiving antibiotics Improve antibiotic prescribing … Prescribing Clinicians: at minimum, it is recommended that you review the content in “Develop a culture … of safety around antibiotic prescribing,” “Learn best practices for the diagnosis and treatment of infectious

6. Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Ambulatory Care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2022 - Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making and has tools to support their implementation and improve prescribing … Apply the Four Moments framework for all patients receiving antibiotics Improve antibiotic prescribing … Prescribing Clinicians:  At a minimum, it is recommended that you review the content in “Learn strategies … for communicating with colleagues, patients, and families around antibiotic prescribing,” “Learn best … ” and “Learn strategies for communicating with colleagues, patients, and families around antibiotic prescribing

7. Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? – Slides
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   September 01, 2022 - Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing?  … Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing … No. 17(22)-0030 September 2022 Focus on Antibiotic Prescribing AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic … Use – Ambulatory Care 1 Objectives Explain why optimizing antibiotic prescribing is necessary for … patient safety Understand how antibiotic stewardship teams can improve antibiotic prescribing practices

8. Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing? – Facilitator Guide (doc file)
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   September 01, 2022 - Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing?  … Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use 1 Why Should Your Practice Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing … There is room for improvement in antibiotic prescribing in the ambulatory setting. … A successful approach to work toward the common goal of safe and effective antibiotic prescribing is … prescribing decisions beyond clinicians’ knowledge of infections and antibiotics.  

9. AHRQ-Funded Studies Highlight Dental Antibiotic Prescribing Trends | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   August 01, 2023 - Today's Headlines: AHRQ-Funded Studies Highlight Dental Antibiotic Prescribing Trends . … AHRQ-Funded Studies Highlight Dental Antibiotic Prescribing Trends Although overall dental antibiotic … prescribing remained steady across the United States between 2012 and 2019, an AHRQ-funded review … in  Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology  has found that antibiotic prescribing rose by 1,313 … In a second review in BMC Infectious Diseases , a  comparison of guideline-concordant prescribing for

10. 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 - practices more appropriately can significantly improve antibiotic prescribing. … Antibiotic prescribing at participating clinics decreased overall by nearly 48 percent, while antibiotic … prescribing for acute respiratory infection diagnoses decreased by 37 percent. … The decline in antibiotic prescribing was more pronounced in urgent care clinics and pediatric practices … "The AHRQ Safety Program continues to demonstrate that focusing attention on appropriate prescribing

11. Implementation Guide for Ambulatory Care Antibiotic Stewardship (pdf file)
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    September 01, 2022 - The presentations in this section cover why a practice should focus on improving antibiotic prescribing … Learn Strategies for Communicating With Colleagues, Patients, and Families About Antibiotic Prescribing … These materials are designed to improve communication and consensus around antibiotic prescribing within … In ambulatory care, communication about antibiotic prescribing with patients and their families is essential … Summary of Topics • “Why Your Practice Should Focus on Improving Antibiotic Prescribing” (slides and

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Final Progress Report: Improving Medication Safety in Nursing Home Dementia Care (pdf file)
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    January 01, 2024 - Results: Our findings suggest that substantial change in prescribing practices is achievable through … The challenge of reducing mortality risks from antipsychotic prescribing in elderly with symptoms … To examine change in prescribing during the Partnership campaign, we examined predictors and trends … in MDS-reported antipsychotic prescribing. … To better understand decision making and changes in prescribing, we conducted 39 semi-structured

16. 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

17. 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

18. Communicating with Patients and Families around Antibiotic Decisions - Slides
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    September 01, 2022 - 1 Effective communication with patients around antibiotics can— Improve antibiotic prescribing and reduce … Patient satisfaction not impacted by antibiotic prescribing for viral upper respiratory infections. … Inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for respiratory conditions does not improve Press Ganey patient … Low-value antibiotic prescribing and clinical factors influencing patient satisfaction. … Reducing inappropriate prescribing: the role of online commentary on physical exam findings.

19. Improving Antibiotic Use is a Patient Safety Issue
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    September 01, 2022 - practices for quality improvement activities and for the quality of care, and some options include prescribing … You are not a Top Performer Your inappropriate antibiotic prescribing rate is 25%. … Reducing inappropriate antibiotics prescribing: the role of online commentary on physical examination … Effect of behavioral interventions on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing among primary care practices … Effects of behavioral interventions on inappropriate antibiotic prescribing in primary care 12 months

20. Choosing the Right Toolkit | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2016 - For example, if the nursing home is already monitoring antibiotic use, staff may have identified that prescribing … In that case, a nursing home may want to select one of the tools designed to help prescribing clinicians … Other common problems that nursing homes may wish to address are high rates of prescribing for specific … Clinicians Identify an Infection Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic … Members Low    Suspected UTI SBAR Working with a Lab to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing