Website Search Results for: antibiotic stewardship
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Date: Mar 22, 2017
Resistant bacteria, or "superbugs," are a cause of major medical illness and death. Government and accreditation agencies, as well as infectious disease experts, believe hospital antibiotic stewardship programs are the answer to blunting the impact and development of these germs. Despite limited resources, rural and Critical Access Hospitals are activating their stewardship programs. - The Rural Monitor
...stewardship programs. - The Rural Monitor --- Mar 22, 2017 Strategies for Superbugs: Antibiotic Stewardship for Rural...
Date: Jul 2017
Presents strategies for implementing antibiotic stewardship programs in critical access hospitals (CAHs). Includes examples of improved antibiotic-use strategies and guidelines for the prescribing physician, nurses, and pharmacists.
...Antibiotic Stewardship Core Elements at Small and Critical Access Hospitals --- Presents strategies for implementing antibiotic...
Date: Dec 27, 2017
The year's most-read list includes articles on the health literacy, tick-borne diseases, COPD, American Indian health disparities, and a variety of innovative rural health approaches. - The Rural Monitor
...Antibiotic Stewardship for Rural Hospitals Resistant bacteria, or “superbugs,” are a cause of major medical...
Date: May 2018
Results of a study of 2,514 nursing homes to assess infection preventionist training and certification, staff turnover, and infection control program characteristics. Features statistics on facility characteristics, with breakdowns by locations in metro, large urban, small urban, or rural areas.
...Antibiotic Stewardship Policies: A National Study --- Results of a study of 2,514 nursing homes...
Date: Mar 2019
Provides a webinar recording addressing antibiotic stewardship for Critical Access Hospitals. Focuses on the core elements of antibiotic stewardship, the related Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) measure for CAHs, and the current performance of Oklahoma's CAHs on antibiotic stewardship implementation.
...Antibiotic Stewardship (Part 1) --- Provides a webinar recording addressing antibiotic stewardship for Critical Access Hospitals...
Date: Mar 20, 2019
CDC Senior Policy Analyst Diane Hall discusses the CDC's work in rural health and the importance of data collection and storytelling. - The Rural Monitor
...antibiotic stewardship. CDC developed an antibiotic stewardship program for hospitals to follow and realized that...
Date: Jun 2019
Continues the discussion on the importance of antibiotic stewardship for Critical Access Hospitals in a webinar recording. Identifies the core elements of antibiotic stewardship, addresses findings from the national Annual Facility Survey and national focus groups, and provides recommendations for implementing and improving antibiotic stewardship programs.
...Antibiotic Stewardship (Part 2) --- Continues the discussion on the importance of antibiotic stewardship for Critical...
Date: Jun 2019
Highlights antibiotic stewardship program best practices and strategies from Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) based on a series of focus groups. Includes antibiotic stewardship results from a CAH facility survey.
...Antibiotic Stewardship --- Highlights antibiotic stewardship program best practices and strategies from Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs...
Date: Jul 2019
Highlights a frontier Critical Access Hospital in Ekalaka, Montana, with a focus on their quality improvement efforts. Covers their plans for a new building, updated electronic health records system, antibiotic stewardship efforts, and training to improve Emergency Department Transfer Communication (EDTC).
...antibiotic stewardship efforts, and training to improve Emergency Department Transfer Communication (EDTC). --- View more Rural...
Date: Sep 2019
Describes antibiotic stewardship (AS) best practices identified through focus groups of 34 high performing Critical Access Hospitals across 25 states. Provides an overview of focus group findings on the seven core elements of hospital AS and identifies recurring themes.
...Antibiotic Stewardship Implementation: Suggested Strategies from High Performing Critical Access Hospitals --- Describes antibiotic stewardship (AS) best...