Antibiotic Stewardship

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

This guide from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality explains how to use the Antibiotic Review Form to evaluate patients taking antibiotics.

A form to evaluate patients actively receiving antibiotics from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use

This tool from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality can help hospital safety program teams audit prophylactic antibiotics interventions throughout the perioperative period.

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.

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.

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.

In this Core Elements report, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines structural and procedural components of successful stewardship programs.

Practical strategies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for implementing antibiotic stewardship programs in small and critical access hospitals.