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Promoting Antibiotic Stewardship Tools and Resources among Health Departments

Related Categories: Quality Improvement

Topic: Performance Management and Quality Improvement

Date: 12/23/2015

​Each year in the United States, antibiotic-resistant bacteria infect 2 million peoplei. To help address this issue, the Public Health Foundation (PHF) is working with the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to support health department antibiotic stewardship and healthcare-associated infection (HAI) programs. PHF will be conducting a series of conversations with state and local health departments about their work in antibiotic stewardship and how they may be addressing HAIs.

 

PHF’s Performance Improvement Specialist, Julie Sharp, will talk with state and local health departments about their antibiotic stewardship and HAI efforts, successes, and challenges with their programs, as well as the impact of collaboration among community partners to advance antibiotic stewardship. In addition, tools, resources, and strategies for successful antibiotic stewardship will be collected and compiled into a final product that can assist health departments create or improve antibiotic stewardship and HAI programs and promote cross-learning among health departments.


PHF has previously facilitated antibiotic stewardship and quality improvement activities in health departments with the Public Health Antibiotic Stewardship Driver Diagram. The population health driver diagram identifies primary and secondary drivers of optimal antibiotic use and can be used as a companion to the Antibiotic Stewardship Driver Diagram developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). PHF has successfully used the population health driver diagram framework in communities to tackle health challenges at the crossroads of public health and healthcare and align efforts between these sectors to achieve community health objectives. In addition, this work is consistent with and supplemental to the newly launched CDC 6|18 Initiative on HAIs.

PHF also houses resources on antibiotic stewardship in the Learning Resource Center and offers access to courses related to antibiotic stewardship on TRAIN.
 
This project is funded through cooperative agreement CDC-RFA-OT13-1302CONT15. The project is managed by the Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Partnership Support Unit.


i Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013. 16 September 2013.

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Promoting Antibiotic Stewardship Tools and Resources among Health Departments