HMS Antimicrobial Use Toolkit

TIER 1: GLOBAL STRATEGIES TO IMPROVE ANTIMICROBIAL USE

Recommendations - Click on a recommendation below to view their Background, Rationale and Suggested Implementation Strategies, Resources & Tools, and References

• Convene a Workgroup to Focus on Tier 1 Strategies

• Develop and Share Institutional Guidelines for UTI and CAP

• Integrate and Operationalize Institutional Guidelines for UTI and CAP

• Reduce Duration of Antibiotic Treatment for Uncomplicated CAP to 5 Days

• Reduce Testing and Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria (ASB)

• Reduce Unnecessary Use of Broad-Spectrum Agents in UTI and Pneumonia

• Reduce Antibiotic Treatment of Questionable Pneumonia

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Click HERE to download and print the HMS Antimicrobial Use Toolkit PDF (Version 10.24.23)