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1. Develop a Culture of Safety Around Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   June 01, 2021 - Clinicians involved in antibiotic prescribing and administration should be encouraged to understand both … The presentations below are designed to help effect change in behaviors around antibiotic prescribing … present antibiotic use as a patient safety issue, how to improve communication and teamwork around prescribing … , how to identify and address problems around antibiotic prescribing, and how to motivate appropriate … prescribing.

2. Making Effective Behavior Changes Around Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   November 01, 2019 - Toolkit Develop and Improve Stewardship Program Effective Behavior Changes Around Prescribing … Program (Part 1) Antibiotic Stewardship Program (Part 2) Effective Behavior Changes Around Prescribing … With Microbiology Lab Team Antibiotic Review Form Develop Culture of Safety Around Prescribing … Long-Term Care Toolkit Making Effective Behavior Changes Around Antibiotic Prescribing … regarding implementation science to implement antibiotic stewardship (AS) interventions and to change prescribing

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Toolkit 1. Working With Your Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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   October 01, 2016 - Working With Your Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing … Working With Your Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing Overview of the Toolkit How can a lab … help improve antibiotic prescribing at your nursing home? … What Is the Working with Your Lab to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing Toolkit? … Working With Your Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing. Content last reviewed October 2016.

7. 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

8. Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
   www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/help-clinicians-choose-the-right-antibiotic/index.html
   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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

15. Toolkit 3. The Nursing Home Antibiogram Program Toolkit: How To Develop and Implement an Antibiogram Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
    www.talkingquality.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/help-clinicians-choose-the-right-antibiotic/toolkit3-develop-implement-antibiogram-program.html
    November 01, 2016 - Referring to an antibiogram report enables prescribing clinicians to make prompt, empirically based decisions … Because antibiograms provide information on local susceptibility patterns, they may help to reduce prescribing … This phase involves determining whether prescribing clinicians and the nursing home facility have the … This phase involves training prescribing clinicians and nurses to use the antibiogram. Phase 4. … Using Nursing Home Antibiograms to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing and Delivery – Final Report.

16. 5 Tk1 T1-Background Final (pdf file)
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    October 01, 2016 - Working With a Lab To Improve Antibiotic Prescribing Tool 1. … • Antibiograms are important tools for health care professionals involved in prescribing empiric antibiotics … Prescribing clinicians—physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants—can consult these … • If it is wanted, interpretive guidance can be given to prescribing clinicians.

17. Study Finds Evidence of Intentional Inappropriate Painkiller Prescribing | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2023 - Newsletter AHRQ News Now Study Finds Evidence of Intentional Inappropriate Painkiller Prescribing … Events Study Finds Evidence of Intentional Inappropriate Painkiller Prescribing … Today's Headlines: Study Finds Evidence of Intentional Inappropriate Painkiller Prescribing . … Study Finds Evidence of Intentional Inappropriate Painkiller Prescribing An AHRQ-funded review of painkiller … Scaling-up a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) to reduce hazardous prescribing

18. Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    August 01, 2021 - Frontline staff and prescribing clinicians are encouraged to use the Four Moments framework for all residents … Implementation of the Four Moments Integrating the Four Moments into daily practice for frontline staff and prescribing … These can also be shared with prescribing clinicians as well as residents and their family members.

19. Antimicrobial Stewardship | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    offers materials to help nursing homes improve antibiotic use and decrease harms caused by inappropriate prescribing … Toolkit To Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic for Treating an Infection : This toolkit … Prescribing clinicians can use an antibiogram to help them choose the most appropriate antibiotic for … After Passage of Legislative Mandate Telemedicine-Based Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Improves Prescribing … Changes in antibiotic prescribing by dentists in the United States, 2012-2019.

20. PowerPoint Presentation (ppt file)
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    May 01, 2014 - 14-0011-6-EF Today we are introducing you to new tools to help improve communication and help prescribing … * Quality Improvement for Antibiotic Prescribing Problems with taking antibiotics Drug resistance … Did you know that 25 to 75 percent of antibiotics do not meet clinical guidelines for prescribing? … criteria from consensus conference  Reviewed prescribing in six nursing homes and extent to which they … clinicians will be trained in more detail on prescribing criteria and their own practices.