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...
Reviewed: Oct 7, 2025
Provides an overview of rural healthcare quality, including information on quality reporting requirements, resources to support quality improvement efforts, how rural facilities perform on quality measures, and current rural quality efforts such as antibiotic stewardship.
...antibiotic stewardship? Antibiotic stewardship (AS) programs seek to improve antibiotic use at healthcare facilities. According...
Reviewed: Jun 20, 2023
Resources and information related to rural long-term care facilities, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and others. Includes sections on workforce issues, mental health needs, antibiotic stewardship, and oral health.
...antibiotic stewardship component. The CDC document The Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes...
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: 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...
Date: Oct 2019
Examines the issue of antibiotic resistance and the purpose of antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs). Discusses barriers to ASP adoption in small community hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) as well as potential solutions.
...Antibiotic Stewardship in Small Community and Critical Access Hospitals --- Examines the issue of antibiotic resistance...
Date: Jan 2025
Tool to help state Flex programs summarize and utilize the Core and Detailed Annual Facility Survey antibiotic stewardship data. Provides a core element summary and a question-by-question summary of Critical Access Hospital responses.
...Antibiotic Stewardship Detailed Data Summarization Tool for State Flex Programs: 2023 Annual Facility Survey --- Tool...
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 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: Mar 2020
Explores four challenges that federal agencies face in addressing antibiotic resistance. Provides eight recommendations for federal agencies to strengthen their efforts to combat antibiotic resistance. Includes references to antibiotic stewardship guidance and programs for Critical Access Hospitals throughout.
...antibiotic stewardship guidance and programs for Critical Access Hospitals throughout. --- Antibiotic Resistance: Additional Federal Actions...