Antibiotic Stewardship

The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) has released an updated AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use in Older Adults. This article details the methodology and modifications.

This PDF provides a word search game focused on antibiotic resistance and stewardship.

This article focuses on poor practices of prescribing antibiotics, which puts patients at unnecessary risks for preventable allergic reactions, super-resistant infections and deadly diarrhea and can contribute to antibiotic resistance making them less likely to work in the future.

This patient-directed tool provides information on using antibiotics appropriately and their role in reducing antibiotic resistance.

Antibiotics are some of the most commonly prescribed drugs and save millions of lives each year. However, overuse and misuse have led to an alarming rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Review this poster to learn about the dangers of overusing antibiotics and why sometimes they are not the answer.

Antibiotic stewardship programs can help organizations promote the appropriate use of antimicrobials (including antibiotics) and improve patient outcomes. Attend this session to hear from Arjun Srinivasan, MD, the associate director for Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Programs, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to learn strategies to implement and maintain an antibiotic stewardship program in your organization.

This document contains detailed explanations of policy and practice actions from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which can be taken by nursing homes as part of their antibiotic stewardship activities.

This document contains more detailed explanations of antibiotic use process and outcome measures, which can be tracked by nursing homes to monitor the impact of their antibiotic stewardship activities.

This article explains how the diagnosis is made, outlines the reasons for treating and summarizes the reasons for avoiding unnecessary treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria.

The discovery of antibiotics was one of the greatest medical achievements of the twentieth century. However, overuse of these drugs has led to the development of resistance in bacteria. As a consequence, some infections can result in serious illness and even death. In this podcast, Dr. Tarayn Fairlie discusses the dangers of overusing antibiotics.

This article provides clinical practice guidelines for the management of asymptomatic bacteriuria by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

This CDC website for long-term care providers provides information and resources on prevention of infections, offers information for clinical staff, infection control coordinators and residents on topices related to antibiotic stewardship, dialysis safety and hand hygiene, and access to infection tracking system for long-term care facilities.

This presentation is from the March 16, 2023, LTC Connect webinar, "Reducing Hospitalizations Due to Facility-Acquired Infections, Part 1 – Antibiotic Stewardship."

This March 16, 2023, LTC Connect recording focuses on reducing hospitalizations due to facility-acquired infections and antibiotic stewardship. TMF Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization specialists discussed how proper identification of urinary tract infections and having an antibiotic stewardship process can help to decrease unnecessary antibiotics as well as help to reduce emergency department visits and readmissions for your residents.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) new Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide is a research-based resource that offers step-by-step instructions and materials to help nursing homes improve antibiotic use and decrease harms caused by inappropriate prescribing. The guide, which is consistent with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention core elements of antibiotic stewardship, can also help health care providers meet the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services new Infection Prevention and Control Program requirements.

This presentation is from the March 16, 2023, LTC Connect webinar, "Adverse Drug Events."

A nursing home-specific antibiogram may be an effective and inexpensive tool for improving appropriate antibiotic prescribing. This toolkit reflects the results of preliminary work with three nursing homes to develop the antibiogram, train staff and implement the program.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new toolkit to help facilities implement an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) that specifically targets C. difficile.

Listen to this first recording from the TMF Quality Innovation Network’s Long-Term Care Antibiotic Stewardship podcast series to hear from Russell Kohl, MD, FAAFP, the chief medical officer at TMF Health Quality Institute, who discusses antibiotic stewardship and why nursing homes need it.

Antibiotics are some of the most commonly prescribed drugs and save millions of lives each year. However, overuse and misuse have led to an alarming rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Review this poster to learn about the dangers of overusing antibiotics and why sometimes they are not the answer.