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Antibiotic stewardship is a joint effort by health care providers to embrace responsible prescribing of antibiotics. Improving and optimizing the use of antibiotic is critical to effectively treat infections, protect patients from harms caused by unnecessary antibiotic use, and combat antibiotic resistance. Please note: on some web browsers, document links may automatically download to your computer rather than open up on your screen.

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Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Core Elements at Small and Critical Access Hospitals
This document, provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), provides guidance on practical strategies to implement antibiotic stewardship programs in small and critical access hospitals.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 01/10/2023    Date Last Modified: Jan 10 2023 3:00PM  
Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
This document, provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), updates the 2014 Core Elements for Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs and incorporates new evidence and lessons learned from experience with the Core Elements.
Web link    Date Added: 01/03/2023    Date Last Modified: Jan 10 2023 2:43PM  
COVID-19: U.S. Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance, Special Report 2022
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a new report finding that much of the progress made in the United States in previous years combating antimicrobial resistance was lost, in large part, due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 07/13/2022    Date Last Modified: Jul 13 2022 2:12PM  
2022 NHSN Training – Videos and Slides
View presentations from the 2022 annual National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) live training on how to identify, report, and analyze VAE, PedVAE, CAUTI, CLABSI, Secondary Bloodstream Infection (BSI) and Site-Specific Infections, SSI, MRSA Bacteremia and C. difficile LabID events, as well as presentations on validation of healthcare-associated infection data, and reporting and analysis of antibiotic use and resistance data.
Web link    Date Added: 07/05/2022    Date Last Modified: Jul 5 2022 6:32PM  
Medicare study puts spotlight on high-volume antibiotic prescribers
A review led by researchers with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion of data on outpatient prescriptions for Medicare patients shows that high-volume antibiotic prescribers are responsible for a disproportionate number of antibiotic prescriptions in this group, researchers reported today in "Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports."
Web link    Date Added: 02/22/2022    Date Last Modified: Feb 22 2022 3:44PM  
Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
This resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers providers and facilities a set of key principles to guide efforts to improve antibiotic use, advance patient safety and improve outcomes.
Web link    Date Added: 02/17/2022    Date Last Modified: Feb 17 2022 2:36PM  
Antibiotic Stewardship Training Series
This interactive web-based activity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is designed to help clinicians optimize antibiotic use to combat antibiotic resistance and improve health care quality and patient safety.
Web link    Date Added: 11/17/2021    Date Last Modified: Nov 17 2021 2:48PM  
Toolkit to Enhance Nursing and Antiobiotic Stewardship (AS) Partnership
This user guide provides resources to engage front-line nurses in AS; obtain leadership support to implement nurse-driven AS activities; and implement a nurse-driven diagnostic stewardship intervention to improve urine and respiratory culturing practices and a penicillin allergy algorithm to improve penicillin allergy documentation.
Web link    Date Added: 08/31/2021    Date Last Modified: Aug 31 2021 2:31PM  
Team Antibiotic Review Form
A form to evaluate patients actively receiving antibiotics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use
Web link    Date Added: 03/03/2021    Date Last Modified: Mar 3 2021 7:49PM  
Completion Guide for the Team Antibiotic Review Form
This guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality explains how to use the Antibiotic Review Form to evaluate patients taking antibiotics.
Web link    Date Added: 03/03/2021    Date Last Modified: Mar 3 2021 7:48PM  
Antibiotic Audit Tool
This tool from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality can help hospital safety program teams audit prophylactic antibiotics interventions throughout the perioperative period.
Web link    Date Added: 03/02/2021    Date Last Modified: Mar 2 2021 8:36PM  
Antibiotic Time Out Tool
This tool from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use should be completed by frontline clinicians on a daily basis for patients receiving antibiotics.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 03/02/2021    Date Last Modified: Mar 3 2021 9:18AM  
Antibiotic Stewardship Program Assessment Tool
The antibiotic stewardship assessment tool is a companion to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs and provides examples for implementing the Core Elements.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 03/01/2021    Date Last Modified: Mar 1 2021 8:49PM  
Implementation Guide for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
This toolkit from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is a detailed pathway for organizations to develop and improve acute care antibiotic stewardship programs.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 02/19/2021    Date Last Modified: Feb 19 2021 4:22PM  
Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
In this Core Elements report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines structural and procedural components of successful stewardship programs.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 02/08/2021    Date Last Modified: Feb 8 2021 3:05PM  
Antibiotic Stewardship for Small and Critical Access Hospitals
Practical strategies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for implementing antibiotic stewardship programs in small and critical access hospitals.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 02/08/2021    Date Last Modified: Feb 8 2021 2:58PM