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Mashup Score: 0Addressing Antibiotic Prescribing Inequities - 3 year(s) ago
Evidence demonstrates how these therapies are prescribed around patients’ races.
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Mashup Score: 0A 4-Year Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Successfully Reduces Antibiotic Resistance - 3 year(s) ago
Antimicrobial stewardship works, one IDWeek 2022 study found.
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After 4 years, one hospital's antimicrobial stewardship program reduced #antibiotic prescriptions and #antimicrobialresistance of dangerous pathogens. #IDWeek2022 https://t.co/VRMMIRSqZ9
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Mashup Score: 18
Date & Time: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 10 a.m. EDT The COVID-19 pandemic has presented many challenges and opportunities to improve antibiotic use and sustain antibiotic stewardship, or efforts to improve antibiotic use and prescribing, including through reducing and eliminating health disparities. Health disparities are closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental…
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📣 Happening 10/25: CDC and partners to discuss health disparities, #AntimicrobialResistance, and #antibiotic use at the #CDCAMRExchange. Register here: https://t.co/kKlq3ckllJ https://t.co/DPDX4ej9cW
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Mashup Score: 0
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has launched a website that highlights health plans that are high performers in appropriate antibiotic use.
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Good news: A new resource from @NCQA highlights best practices in health systems’ approaches to appropriate #antibiotic use. https://t.co/UuJtCcGEkK
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Mashup Score: 2Algorithm that predicts viral etiology of diarrhea may curb inappropriate antibiotic use - 3 year(s) ago
Use of an algorithm-based tool to determine the likelihood of viral etiology for acute diarrhea in children did not significantly reduce antibiotic prescriptions in developing countries, according to a study in JAMA Pediatrics.However, as the algorithm-predicted probability of viral diarrhea increased, physicians did prescribe fewer antibiotics, researchers reported in a post hoc analysis.
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Use of an algorithm-based tool to determine the likelihood of viral etiology for acute #diarrhea in #children did not significantly reduce #antibiotic #prescriptions in developing countries, according to a study in @JAMAPediatrics #GITwitter #MedTwitter https://t.co/GtrlaiWGOI
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Mashup Score: 1Antibiotic Stewardship in Outpatient Care - 3 year(s) ago
Although there are challenges for clinical and infectious disease pharmacists when trying to apply this concept, here are some considerations and strategies to employ stewardship in this setting.
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.@Kerry_LaPlante and @glenn_tillotson discuss strategies for #pharmacists in performing #antibiotic stewardship in this setting. https://t.co/h1p4De2WQL
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Mashup Score: 6Study Highlights Diverse Approaches to Improving Antibiotic Use - 3 year(s) ago
A new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases offers a first-of-its-kind, systematic look at antibiotic stewardship programs in health systems and networks across the U.S. The findings highlight both shared traits and key differences across a spectrum of implementation strategies and underscore that there is no one-size-fits-all approach.
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How can health systems develop strong #antibiotic stewardship programs? A new study lays out key findings👇 https://t.co/qFNpow7U1i
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Mashup Score: 2Optimizing Antibiotic Treatment of Skin Infections in Pediatric Emergency and Urgent Care Centers - PubMed - 3 year(s) ago
We improved optimal choice and reduced duration of antibiotic treatment of outpatient SSTIs. MOC participation was associated with greater improvement and was sustained after the intervention period.
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Optimizing #Antibiotic Tx of #SkinInfections in #PediatricEmergency and Urgent Care Centers Susan May Wiltrakis, MD et al. @WUSTL https://t.co/ZV2kLDt7Kl @Pediatrics #SSTIs https://t.co/KfaAn2IidJ
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Mashup Score: 1
Dentists write about 25.7 million prescriptions annually, amounting to about 10% of all outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in the United States. A recent study showed that educating dentists about the risks of antibiotics—including antimicrobial resistance and Clostridioides difficile infections—led to sharp decreases in prescriptions.
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New article in @OFIDJournal details improvements in #Antibiotic prescribing among dentists after antibiotic stewardship education.@idpharmd #IDtwitter @AmerDentalAssn https://t.co/uSN5Q98X2Z
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Mashup Score: 5WHO Outlines Antibiotic Development Priorities - 3 year(s) ago
With antimicrobial resistance a rising threat, the World Health Organization is working to heighten awareness of the urgent need for new therapies.
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RT @saveantibiotics: ICYMI: @WHO report highlights the urgent need to spur #antibiotic development. @Contagion_Live https://t.co/51goLtynck
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"It’s identifying and recognizing that we have these inequities and figuring out what we are going to do to move forward to eliminate inequities.” #antibiotic prescribing #IDWeek https://t.co/TfLydWxkMa