Vaccines and Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship.

Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship.

The Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship provides a framework for antibiotic stewardship for outpatient clinicians and facilities that routinely provide antibiotic treatment. This report augments existing guidance for other clinical settings. In 2014 and 2015, respectively, CDC released the Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs and the Core Elements of Antibiot...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Intervention Package for Increasing Appropriate Outpatient Antibiotic Usage: A Clinic-Feedback Based Approach

Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship: A Growing Frontier—Combining Myxovirus Resistance Protein A With Other Biomarkers to Improve Antibiotic Use

Background The majority of oral antibiotics are prescribed in outpatient primary and urgent care clinics for acute respiratory infections. Effective antibiotic stewardship must include proper prescribing for outpatients as well as for those in a hospital or long-term care facility. Methods Major databases, including MEDLINE and the Cochrane Library, were searched for prospective human clinica...

Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing Practices for Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in Women in the United States, 2002–2011

Background.  Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common diagnoses leading to an antibiotic prescription for women seeking ambulatory care. Understanding current national outpatient antibiotic prescribing practices will help ongoing stewardship efforts to optimize antibiotic use; however, information on recent national outpatient antibiotic prescribing trends for UTI is limited. Met...

The hidden societal cost of antibiotic resistance per antibiotic prescribed in the United States: an exploratory analysis

BACKGROUND Ambulatory antibiotic prescribing contributes to the development of antibiotic resistance and increases societal costs. Here, we estimate the hidden societal cost of antibiotic resistance per antibiotic prescribed in the United States. METHODS In an exploratory analysis, we used published data to develop point and range estimates for the hidden societal cost of antibiotic resistanc...