Antimicrobial Stewardship: Resources, References and Tools
Last Updated 10/22/2020
American Nurses Association (ANA)
- White Paper ANA-CDC Workgroup: opens in a new tab Redefining the Antibiotic Stewardship Team: Recommendations from the American Nurses Association/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Workgroup on the Role of Registered Nurses in Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Practices
Updated 10/22Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (APIC)
- APIC Antimicrobial Stewardship opens in a new tab
- APIC/SHEA Position Paper: Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Collaborative Partnership between Infection Preventionists and Healthcare Epidemiologists opens in a new tab Am J Infect Control 2012
California Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
- California antimicrobial stewardship program initiative opens in a new tab Acute care hospitals in California are required by law to implement programs for monitoring the use of antibiotics with oversight from a quality improvement committee.
Updated 10/22Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- CDC – Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship (2019) opens in a new tab
- CDC Vital Signs- covers important health threats such as antimicrobial resistance.
- CDC Vital Signs: Containing Unusual Resistance April 2018 opens in a new tab
- Accompanying Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Vital Signs: Containment of Novel Multidrug-Resistant Organisms and Resistance Mechanisms — United States, 2006–2017 MMWR April 6, 2018 / 67(13);396-401 opens in a new tab
- CDC Vital Signs: Making Healthcare Safer- Stopping the Spread of Antibiotic Resistance opens in a new tab
- Accompanying Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report: Vital Signs: Estimated Effects of a Coordinated Approach for Action to Reduce Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Health Care Facilities — United States. MMWR August 7, 2015 / 64(30);826-831 opens in a new tab
- CDC Vital Signs: Making Healthcare Safer: Protecting Patients from HAIs and Antibiotic-Resistant Infections opens in a new tab
- Accompanying Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Preventing Antibiotic-Resistant Infections in Hospitals — United States, 2014 MMWR March 11, 2016 / 65(9);235–241 opens in a new tab
- CDC Vital Signs: Containing Unusual Resistance April 2018 opens in a new tab
- CDC Report: Antibiotic Use in the United States, 2017: Progress and Opportunities opens in a new tab (includes programs and resources to support stewardship in healthcare)
- Antibiotics and Antimicrobial Resistance opens in a new tab
- Resources on top resistant organisms, lab testing, antibiotic-resistant isolate bank, protecting food supply, protecting patients, protecting yourself and your family
- Antimicrobial Stewardship: Antimicrobial Prescribing and Use in Hospitals and Long Term Care opens in a new tab
- CDC’s Be Antibiotics Aware: Smart Use and Best Care opens in a new tab (formerly Get Smart): CDC’s national effort to help improve antibiotic prescribing and use and to help combat antibiotic resistance.
- US Antibiotics Awareness Week, November 12-18, 2018 opens in a new tab
Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)
- IDSA – Antimicrobial Resistance opens in a new tab
- The Infectious Disease Society of America and the Society Healthcare Epidemiology of America Guidelines opens in a new tabIDSA-SHEA Guidelines for Institutional Programs for Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2007;44(15 Jan):159-177
National Quality Forum (NQF)
- NQF and CDC: Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Care: A Practical Playbook. opens in a new tabTools Developed by 25 experts and organizations, including Premier healthcare alliance, to help acute-care hospitals implement strategies to promote appropriate, safe use of antibiotics
- National Quality Partners’ Antibiotic Stewardship Action Team: Antibiotic Stewardship in Acute Care: A practical Playbook (May 25, 2016) opens in a new tab.
The PEW Charitable Trusts
- Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance opens in a new tab, includes research, issues papers, podcasts, education, and testimony
- Report: Trends in US Antibiotic use, 2018 opens in a new tab