
This program, which is scheduled to begin in December 2019, will combine evidence-based guidance with strategies to address the attitudes, beliefs and culture that often pose challenges to improving antibiotic prescribing. This program will help clinicians protect patients from exposure to unneeded antibiotics and associated side effects, including rashes and Clostridioides difficile infections.
Participation Benefits
- Reduce unnecessary antibiotic use and increase appropriate antibiotic use
- Improve patient safety and safety culture
- Enhance teamwork and communication around diagnosis and treatment of infections and antibiotic prescribing in your practice
- Maintain and improve patient and family satisfaction
- Improve workflow, especially during the busy cold and flu season
- Monthly data on number of patient visits, antibiotic prescriptions administered by antibiotic type, patients with respiratory infections, patients diagnosed with a respiratory condition and prescribed antibiotics (certain ICD-10 codes)
- Completion of a surveys regarding practice infrastructure, antibiotic stewardship activities, and patient safety issues
- Primary care clinics
- Urgent care clinics
- Student health clinics
- Community-based health clinics (e.g. Federally Qualified Health Centers or FQHCs)
- Outpatient specialty clinics that provide primary care (e.g., OB/GYN)
For more information, visit https://safetyprogram4antibioticstewardship.org/ or email antibioticsafety@norc.org.