Resources & Tools
- HMS Document: Treatment Duration for Uncomplicated Community-Acquired Pneumonia: The Evidence in Support of 5 Days. (updated 2/19/2021)
- Review HMS site reports (hard copy distributed at collaborative wide meetings and live reports available daily via the HMS data entry system) for the following:
- Uncomplicated CAP treated with 5 days of antibiotics
- Types of Reports Available via HMS Registry: Hospital Specific, Provider Group Specific (i.e. hospitalist v. emergency room physician), or Provider Specific
- HMS Guideline:
- CAP Pocket Card
- Consider modifying to poster size for posting in workrooms
- Fact Sheet Emphasizing Focus on Discharge Prescriptions
- Antibiotic Time Out Checklist
- Tiered Antibiotic Use at Discharge Resource
- CDC Poster: Be Antibiotics Aware at Hospital Discharge
- CDC Poster: Use the Shortest Effective Antibiotic Duration
- Antibiotic Use at Discharge Pocket Card (Michigan Medicine)
- "Strive for Five" Hospital Newsletter Example (Corewell Health - previously Beaumont)
- Example of email feedback on provider performance for duration of CAP treatment #1 - Top Performer (St. Joseph Mercy - Ann Arbor)
- Example of email feedback on provider performance for duration of CAP treatment #2 - Prolonged Duration of Antibiotics (St. Joseph Mercy - Ann Arbor)
- Case Studies: Adult Case - Community Acquired Pneumonia (Presentation for SHEA ASP Training Course, 2021 by Dr. Valerie Vaughn)
- Video Presentation: Diagnostic Error and Antibiotic Use in Patients Hospitalized with Pneumonia Training Video
- Presenter: Valerie Vaughn, MD, MSc
- Session Length: ~24 minutes
- Sepsis Alliance Webinar: The Blind Spot of Antibiotic Stewardship - Antibiotic Overuse at Discharge
- Presenter: Valerie Vaughn, MD, MSc
- CE Information: 1.6 CNE, 1.25 CE for other healthcare professionals
- Session Overview: This presentation will address the current state of antibiotic use at discharge, discuss why providers often overprescribe at discharge, and help improve prescribing and patient outcomes during care transitions.
- Presentation (For HMS Members - Additional authentication may be required):
- Ascension River District Antimicrobial Stewardship Team at the March 15, 2023 HMS Collaborative Wide Meeting: Journey of a Small Hospital - The CAP Experience
- Slides 14-16 show an example of a Message Center Alert that directs the physician's ability to quickly identify the antibiotics and number of days the patient has received so far
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