Antibiotic Stewardship Toolkit

The American Society of Health System Pharmacists recently released a statement giving guidance to pharmacists in understanding the key role they play in the Antibiotic Stewardship program. This statement outlines the Society’s stance on the pharmacist’s duty to effectively and responsibly prevent infection in patients.

While providing a background on the need for Antibiotic Stewardship, this downloadable document also outlines the individual responsibilities of pharmacists as it pertains to antibiotic moderation in instances of infection control.

The CDC guide to incorporating antibiotic stewardship best practices into the outpatient office practice setting. This information offers a framework for implementation based on committment, action tracking & reporting and education & expertise in the outpatient setting.

This resource provides you with an informational guide to help identify the perfect Physician Champion candidate for the project at hand. The guide is comprised of a two-page white sheet on desirable traits to look for in a good physician leader. In addition, the guide also discusses the expectations of the physician during a project and provides tips to make the physician successful in their project role.

This resource provides tactics to reduce the use of inappropriate antibiotic medications in healthcare organizations.

APIC provides consolidated information of vendor technology for surveillance of construction issues and environmental services with a focus on infection control.

This resource provides the framework for antibiotic stewardship programs to ensure safe patient care.

Use this document to assist you with auditing individual patient records related to antibiotic stewardship. The document facilitates collection of all related information on one page.

A table offers recommendations for measuring outcomes in your Antibiotic Stewardship program. The measure includes infection control and medication usage to help determine program effectiveness.

This resource provides you with another example of an in-depth Gap Analysis tool for antimicrobial management programs. The downloadable checklist and evaluation matrix will guide you in evaluating the current state of your antibiotic stewardship program by comparing it to program elements that are considered best practices.

This resource provides you with an updated checklist to evaluate the current state of your facility’s antibiotic stewardship program. This checklist can be used as a gap analysis tool where you compare your program against elements which are considered best practice fundamentals of an antibiotic stewardship program. Through this analysis, you will be able to identify the areas of your facility’s antibiotic prescribing program that need improvement.

This resource provides outpatient healthcare professionals with recommendations for prescribing antibiotics in the outpatient arena.

This PowerPoint presentation was created for organizations to use when training general staff members about antibiotic stewardship. This is only a PowerPoint presentation with no voiceover and is set up for staff to be able to read through and understand. The information is directed at clinicians and provides a basic overview of the antibiotic resistance crisis, what resistance means in the real world and how general staff members can make an impact in reducing the problems associated with antibiotic misuse.

Resource bundles by the CDC to promote efforts on Antibiotic Stewardship The resources are broken down into different healthcare settings such as outpatient, long term care, and dental care.

Sample job description from Alameda Health System for Director of Pharmacy. This job description incorporates antibiotic stewardship responsibilities.

Sample job description from Duke University for a Clinical Pharmacist to manage the antibiotic stewardship program.

A sample organization-wide antibiotic stewardship policy that includes measures of success.

A sample organization-wide antibiotic stewardship policy that incorporates a Physician Champion.

A sample organization-wide antibiotic stewardship policy.

A sample tool that can be used to track the use of antibiotics in your organization.

A tool that be placed on medical records to prompt the physician to either discontinue or reorder antibiotics after 14 days.

A sample policy for re-evaluating the need for continuation of an antibiotic.

A sample policy to guide pharmacy dosing of Zosyn.

Sample language that can be used in a contract with an Infectious Disease Physician to oversee Antibiotic Stewardship program.

Sample IV to PO conversion protocol to facilitate transition of IV medications to oral.

Tool to facilitate the volume status and tissue perfusion reassessment 6 hours after a patient presents in septic shock.

A sample renal dosing clarification order that can be used by pharmacist when adjusting doses per an approved dosing program.

Sample tool that can be used by pharmacist during patient rounds.

Sample physician order set for pneumonia. These orders are designed according to evidence-based practice and with antibiotic stewardship in mind.

Sample physician order set for pneumonia/sepsis. These orders are designed according to evidence-based practice and with antibiotic stewardship in mind.

A sample policy that describes the process of pharmacy review of organizational antibiotic use.

Sample policy describing review of use of antimicrobials that are on the restricted use list.

Sample policy that provides clinical directive for renal dose adjustments for adults based on the degree of renal impairment.

Detailed sample protocol for renal adjustments on specific medications.

Sample physician order set for sepsis. These orders are designed according to evidence-based practice and with antibiotic stewardship in mind.