The agency shares toolkits to help acute-care, long-term care, and ambulatory care facilities adopt the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making framework.
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Antimicrobial-resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths both increased from 2019 to 2020, according to a new CDC analysis.
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The revised site reflects new information, partner feedback, and industry best practices and includes fact sheets on the agency's AR Laboratory Network and innovative investments to respond to AR globally.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention marks U.S. Antibiotics Awareness Week with a new Antibiotic Use Option Report that synthesizes National Healthcare Safety Network data.
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The new guidelines reflect revised conditions of participation in the September 2019 discharge planning and burden reduction final rules.
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The report includes updated statistics and, for the first time, uses electronic health data from hospitals to calculate infection and death rates.
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The toolkit includes a decision-making framework for antibiotic prescribing and strategies for developing an antibiotic stewardship program.
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The report includes resources for health care providers and profiles antibiotic stewardship efforts at association members Atrium Health and Denver Health.
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Clinical and Public Health Partnerships For Antibiotic StewardshipLearn how essential hospitals can partner with public health departments to improve antibiotic stewardship efforts, and hear firsthand about LAC+USC Medical Center’s partnership experience.
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The Antibiotic Resistance Investment resource page features an interactive map and downloadable fact sheets for each state and select major cities.
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The agency awarded five association members for their research to detect, prevent, and treat antibiotic-resistant infections.
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Essential hospitals across the country have made commitments to improve antimicrobial stewardship through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Antimicrobial Resistance Challenge.
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This yearlong global initiative challenges governments, private industries, and nongovernmental organizations to commit to reducing antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance.
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This training details approaches to controlling antibiotic resistance in health care settings; participants must sign up for a free Medscape account.
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This second segment of a no-cost, online training course focuses on outpatient antibiotic stewardship and communicating with patients; participants can receive up to eight hours of continuing education credit.
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The agency outlines a five-step containment process and provides resources for health departments, labs, and health care providers.
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Health care professionals who complete the four-part web training program are eligible to receive up to eight hours of continuing education credit.
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