Implementation Resources for Health Departments
Leadership Commitment
- Eight Ways Health Department Leaders Can Support Effective HAI/AR Programs
- Lists principles that can be applied to antibiotic stewardship programs at state and local health departments.
Action
- Examples of Stewardship Collaboratives
- Framework for Implementing the Interim LHD Strategy
- Hospital Quality Incentive Payment Program (Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing)
Tracking
- Antibiotic Use & Stewardship A.R. & Patient Safety Portal
- National Healthcare Safety Network resources:
- Tracking data on stewardship activities and Core Elements uptake:
- Tracking data on antibiotic use:
Reporting
- Examples of state honor rolls:
- Reporting antibiotic use data and providing prescriber-level audit and feedback with peer comparison
- CHARM Project
CHARM (Collaboration to Harmonize Antimicrobial Registry Measures) collaborative utilizes electronic medical records data to quantify and assess local antibiotic prescribing practices. - OASIS – Stewardship Simplified
OASIS (Outpatient Automated Stewardship Information System) is a statistical code that can be used with any electronic health record to provide individualized audit and feedback reports to medical providers on their antibiotic prescribing patterns compared to their peers. - State Health Department Editable Letter [PDF – 2 pages]
- CHARM Project
- Example of a stewardship annual report: