Implementation Resources

Pharmacy Expertise

• 5 Ways Hospital Pharmacists can Be Antibiotics Aware

Action

• Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America pdf icon[PDF – 27 pages]external icon
• Urine Culture Stewardship in Hospitalized Patients
• Toolkit to Enhance Nursing and Antibiotic Stewardship Partnership (The Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship)external icon
• 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 icon[PDF – 14 pages]
• AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Useexternal icon

Tracking and Reporting

• 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 icon[PDF – 11 pages]
• Selective Reporting of Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Results: A Primer for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs pdf icon[PDF – 3 pages]
• Assessment of Appropriateness of Antibiotics for Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) word icon[DOC – 18 KB] February 2014
• Assessment of Appropriateness of Antibiotics for Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) word icon[DOC – 16 KB] February 2014
• Assessment of Appropriateness of Antibiotic Use for Resistant Gram-Positive Infections word icon[DOC – 15 KB] February 2014
• Assessment of Appropriateness of Inpatient Antibiotics word icon[DOC – 16 KB] February 2014
• Developing Stewardship Measures (Duke University)external icon

Education

• CDC Training on Antibiotic Stewardshipexternal icon
• Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)external icon
• Making a Difference in Infectious Diseases (MAD-ID)external icon
• Pediatric Society of Infectious Diseases (PIDS)external icon
• Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP)external icon
• The Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) external icon

More Resources

• Antibiotic Stewardship Implementation: Suggested Strategies from High Performing CAHsexternal icon
• National Quality Partners Playbook™: Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Careexternal icon
• Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists Podcastsexternal icon
• American Hospital Association, “Antibiotic Stewardship for Acute Care Hospitals” Advancing Health Podcastexternal icon
• Infectious Diseases Society of America, “Promoting Antimicrobial Stewardship in Human Medicine” Antimicrobial Stewardship Podcastexternal icon