Antimicrobial stewardship toolkits
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality released a set of toolkits to improve antibiotic stewardship in acute settings. The package includes a review: Antimicrobial stewardship: another focus for patient safety? This review summarizes the literature on antimicrobial stewardship to illustrate its relationship with patient safety. Interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use included guidelines for controlling Clostridium difficile infection rates, mandatory outpatient parenteral therapy consultations, and performing medication reconciliation. AHRQ also has released an “Acute Care Hospital Toolkit” to support implementation of the “Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making” and improve antibiotic prescribing.
“Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019” (2019 AR Threats Report) is a publication of the Antibiotic Resistance Coordination and Strategy Unit within the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The full 2019 AR Threats Report, including methods and appendices, is available online.
State-based health care-associated infection prevention activities from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Declines in HACs save 20,500 lives and $7.7 billion in costs. Released Jan. 29, 2019