Development of a Centralized Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Across a Diverse Health System and Early Antimicrobial Usage Trends.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Expanding antimicrobial stewardship to community hospitals is vital and now required by regulatory agencies. UPMC instituted the Centralized Health system Antimicrobial Stewardship Efforts (CHASE) Program to expand antimicrobial stewardship to all UPMC hospitals regardless of local resources. For hospitals with few local stewardship resources, we used a model integrating local non-Infectious Diseases (ID) trained pharmacists with centralized ID experts.

Methods

Thirteen hospitals were included. Eleven were classified as robust (4) or nonrobust (7) depending on local stewardship resources and fulfillment of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention core elements of hospital antimicrobial stewardship. In addition to general stewardship oversight at all UPMC hospita

SUBMITTER: Khadem TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9126488 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature