Antibiotic Stewardship

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Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Solutions Initiative

Improve antibiotic use through antibiotic stewardship, sepsis recognition, and prevention.

• Set national goals to improve antibiotic use.
  • Cut inappropriate prescribing practices by 50% in doctors’ office and 20% in hospitals.
• Implement effective stewardship programs using CDC’s Core Elements and recommendations in doctors’ offices, hospitals, and nursing homes, integrated with sepsis early recognition programs.
• Support collaboration to develop and evaluate stewardship activities.
• Provide data about antibiotic use and trends to better understand prescribing practices. For example:
  • Expand and use CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) data to guide improvement of antibiotic use in hospitals.
  • Better understand differences in prescribing patterns in doctors’ offices by states and develop strategies for improvement.
• Expand State HAI/AR Prevention Programs to help implement best practices around improving antibiotic prescribing.
• Support early recognition of sepsis. Heighten public awareness to prevent sepsis and its complications, and to improve antibiotic use.

Improve antibiotic use to combat antibiotic resistance.

HAI: healthcare-associated infection

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