Implementation of an effective Antibiotic Stewardship program requires more than just an understanding of the need for better stewardship. 

It requires access to data to understand current prescribing performance and gain clinician commitment to change, tools to provide individualized feedback on prescribing performance, and ways of tracking and measuring corrective actions. 

These tools must be augmented with education – particularly for new clinicians – to ensure prescribers have the information they need to effectively communicate proper use (and misuses) of antibiotics to patients.

Education for patients must be incorporated as well – as a preventive tool as well as a training tool for clinicians to use in direct patient conversations.

UCF has created and curated this Implementation Toolkit to address the core elements of outpatient antibiotic stewardship in hopes that clinicians and all center staff have the education, expertise and resources they need for better Antibiotic Stewardship.