With funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) is leading an effort to develop and pilot a change package to enable public health organizations to help reduce antibiotic resistance. A
change package serves as a catalogue of the leading practices that teams will adapt in an accelerated improvement process.
This initiative compliments PHF's collaboration with the
Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) to help hospitals reduce healthcare associated infections due to antibiotic resistance. Hospital-based efforts will be most effective when paired with community-based change efforts that address root causes of antibiotic resistance that persist beyond the hospital walls.
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draft of the driver diagram to inform population-based change packages is available for review and comment. If you have any comments on the driver diagram or examples of promoting optimal antibiotic use among public health organizations, please share your comments with Margie Beaudry at [email protected]. PHF is partnering with health departments to pilot the diagram in Connecticut, Maine, and Missouri.