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November 2022 – September 2023
RESULTS:
“Evaluating the Effect of an Urgent Care Antibiotic Stewardship Intervention: A Multi-Network Collaborative Effort”
CHANGE PACKET
Select from the resources below the intervention(s) to deploy during your current PDSA cycle for the QI Program.
FIRST (STANDARD) INTERVENTION
Sign the UCA|CUCM Antibiotic Stewardship Commitment Statement
CDC recommended patient education handouts (English)
Improving Antibiotics Two Page Handout
Virus or Bacteria One Page Poster
CDC recommended patient education handouts (Spanish)
CDC Patient Experience (Video)
RX for Viral Illness (English)
CDC Rx Relief for Viral Illness (Large)
CDC Rx Relief for Viral Illness (Small)
RX for Viral Illness (Spanish)
New York State Department of Health: Educating Patient’s About Antibiotic Usage (Video)
Dialogue Around Respiratory illness Treatment (DART) program (evidence-based communication strategies)
Antibiotic Resistance Report 2019
COVID-19 Special Report 2022
When Antibiotic Experts Say No to Antibiotics (GERMS article)
CDC A Core Elements Outpatient Checklist
CDC Core Elements Outpatient Report
How to Prescribe Fewer Unnecessary Antibiotics: Patient Talking Points (AFP article)
Signage (English)
ABS Public Commitment Statement (poster)
CDC 8 Ways to Be Antibiotics Aware (wait room poster)
CDC Do Antibiotics Have Side Effects?
CDC Do I Need Antibiotics? (infograph)
CDC Improve Outpatient Antibiotic Use (sign)
CDC PSA Right Tool ES (poster)
Signage (Spanish)
CDC Do Antibiotics Have Side Effects? ES
Social Posts
CDC Antibiotics Resistance By the Numbers
CDC Do I Really Need Antibiotics?
The Urgent Care Association (UCA) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The successful completion of the Antibiotic Stewardship Quality Improvement Project activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn a maximum of:
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Participation in this CME activity includes sharing participant information with the ABIM, ABP and ABMS Boards via ACCME’s PARS and ABMS MOCAM.
Goals: Participants will commit to antibiotic stewardship following a plan data collection, implementing stewardship efforts, and continuous feedback. Progress will be measured with a goal of demonstrating a decrease in inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, 9-mo out from the baseline, improving patient outcomes.
CME Participation: Providers must attend a minimum of (4) webinars during the 9-mo program; participate actively in the implementation of the selected intervention(s); participate in selected feedback mechanism to evaluate progress; complete activity evaluation component.
Disclosure information for this activity:
Planners, Faculty, Reviewers, Other
Commercial Support: This activity did not receive any commercial support.
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