CDC Observes Patient Safety Awareness Week
March 21, 2023 ||The agency shared resources for protecting patients and providers from infectious disease threats, such as antimicrobial resistance.
view more »The agency shared resources for protecting patients and providers from infectious disease threats, such as antimicrobial resistance.
view more »Shigella infections caused by extensively drug-resistant strains comprise about 5 percent of Shigella infections reported to CDC.
view more »The agency shares toolkits to help acute-care, long-term care, and ambulatory care facilities adopt the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making framework.
view more »Antimicrobial-resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths both increased from 2019 to 2020, according to a new CDC analysis.
view more »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.
view more »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.
view more »The new guidelines reflect revised conditions of participation in the September 2019 discharge planning and burden reduction final rules.
view more »The report includes updated statistics and, for the first time, uses electronic health data from hospitals to calculate infection and death rates.
view more »The toolkit includes a decision-making framework for antibiotic prescribing and strategies for developing an antibiotic stewardship program.
view more »The report includes resources for health care providers and profiles antibiotic stewardship efforts at association members Atrium Health and Denver Health.
view more »Learn 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.
view more »The Antibiotic Resistance Investment resource page features an interactive map and downloadable fact sheets for each state and select major cities.
view more »The agency awarded five association members for their research to detect, prevent, and treat antibiotic-resistant infections.
view more »Essential hospitals across the country have made commitments to improve antimicrobial stewardship through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Antimicrobial Resistance Challenge.
view more »This yearlong global initiative challenges governments, private industries, and nongovernmental organizations to commit to reducing antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance.
view more »This training details approaches to controlling antibiotic resistance in health care settings; participants must sign up for a free Medscape account.
view more »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.
view more »The agency outlines a five-step containment process and provides resources for health departments, labs, and health care providers.
view more »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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