Implementation Resources for Hospitals
Action
- Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America [PDF – 27 pages]
- Urine Culture Stewardship in Hospitalized Patients
- Healthcare Professionals: Be Antibiotics Aware – At Hospital Discharge (Print Only) [PDF – 1 page]
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Transition of Care (Henry Ford Health System)
- Toolkit to Enhance Nursing and Antibiotic Stewardship Partnership (The Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship)
- Redefining the Antibiotic Stewardship Team: Recommendations from the American Nurses Association/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Workgroup on the Role of Registered Nurses in Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Practices [PDF – 14 pages]
- AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use
Tracking and Reporting
- NEW Blood Culture Contamination [PDF – 3 pages]
- Preventing Adult Blood Culture Contamination: A Quality Tool for Clinical Laboratory Professionals. See NHSN organism listfor common commensals that contaminate blood cultures.
- National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Module
- NHSN AU Option Case Examples
- Strategies to assess antibiotic use to drive improvements in hospitals [PDF – 11 pages]
- Key Activities and Roles for Microbiology Laboratory Staff in Antibiotic Stewardship Programs [PDF – 5 pages]
- Assessment of Appropriateness of Antibiotics for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) [DOC – 18 KB] February 2014
- Assessment of Appropriateness of Antibiotics for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) [DOC – 16 KB] February 2014
- Assessment of Appropriateness of Antibiotic Use for Resistant Gram-Positive Infections [DOC – 15 KB] February 2014
- Assessment of Appropriateness of Inpatient Antibiotics [DOC – 16 KB] February 2014
- Developing Stewardship Measures (Duke University)
More Resources
- Antibiotic Stewardship Implementation: Suggested Strategies from High Performing CAHs [PDF – 16 pages]
- National Quality Partners Playbook™: Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Care
- Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists Podcasts
- American Hospital Association, “Antibiotic Stewardship for Acute Care Hospitals” Advancing Health Podcast
- Infectious Diseases Society of America, “Promoting Antimicrobial Stewardship in Human Medicine” Antimicrobial Stewardship Podcast
- Clinical & Laboratory Standards Institute: Access to Free M100 and M60 Data