Resources & Tools
- 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:
- Antibiotic treatment regimens for UTI and CAP/HCAP
- Discharge antibiotics
- Median duration of inappropriate broad-spectrum empiric therapy
- Ordering provider of first dose of inappropriate broad-spectrum empiric therapy
- Patients with negative culture for MRSA and on MRSA coverage
- Patients with negative culture for Pseudomonas or another resistant Gram-negative pathogen and on anti-pseudomonal coverage
- Examples from Intermountain Health for Pharmacist-driven tools to aid in de-escalation
- Antibiotic Time Out Checklist
- Who Needs Broad-Spectrum Empiric Antibiotic Coverage in CAP?
- CDC Poster: Pharmacists - Reassess Antibiotic Therapy
- Provider Education Video: Thinking of a Fluoroquinolone? Think again.