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Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkit Best Practices from the Gnyha/Uhf Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative Antimicrobial Stewardship Project Participants Greater New York Hospital Association United Hospital Fund ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP TOOLKIT BEST PRACTICES FROM THE GNYHA/UHF ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP COLLABORATIVE ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP PROJECT PARTICIPANTS ACUTE CARE FACILITIES LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES • Lutheran Medical Center • Lutheran Augustana Center for • North Shore University Hospital Extended Care and Rehabilitation • St. Catherine of Siena Medical • Stern Family Center for Extended Center Care and Rehabilitation • St. Catherine of Siena Nursing Home ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP STEERING COMMITTEE DAVID CALFEE, MD BERNARD J. NASH, MD, FACP Chief Hospital Epidemiologist, NewYork- Diplomat, American Board of Infectious Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell and Diseases, Co-Chair Infection Control Chairman, GNYHA/UHF Antimicrobial Committee, Member Antimicrobial Stewardship Project Stewardship Program, Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center HEIDE CHRISTENSEN, RPH, MS Clinical Pharmacy Manager, Good Sa- BELINDA OSTROWSKY, MD, MPH maritan Hospital Medical Center Infectious Diseases Physician, Montefiore Medical Center and Assistant Professor FRANCIS EDWARDS, RN Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Director, Infection Control, Good Albert Einstein College of Medicine Samaritan Hospital Medical Center RAFAEL RUIZ, PHD MIRIAM ELLISON, PHARMD, CGP Assistant Director, Clinical Practice and Clinical Pharmacist, Good Samaritan Outcomes Research, GNYHA Hospital Medical Center GINA SHIN, MPH LORI FINKELSTEIN-BLOND, RN-MA Project Manager, Regulatory and Director, Performance Improvement, Professional Affairs, GNYHA The Mount Sinai Medical Center ISMAIL SIRTALAN, PHD CINDY FONG, PHARM D, BCPS Vice President and Executive Director, GNYHA Pharmacy Consultant The Health Economics and Outcomes Research Institute, GNYHA KATE GASE, MPH, CIC Hospital-Acquired Infection Reporting RACHEL STRICOF, MPH, CIC Program, Regional Representative, Bureau Director, Bureau of Hospital- NewYork State Department of Health Acquired Infections, NewYork State Department of Health HILLARY JALON, MS Project Director, Quality Improvement, ROXANNE TENA-NELSON, JD, MPH United Hospital Fund Executive Vice President, Continuing Care Leadership Coalition CHRISTINE MARTIN, RPH, MS, CGP Clinical Pharmacist, Good Samaritan MARIA WOODS, ESQ Hospital Medical Center Vice President, Legal, Regulatory, and Professional Affairs, GNYHA WWW.GNYHA.ORG/ANTIMICROBIAL PUBLISHED 2011 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. WHY ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP? 5 A. Introduction and Background B. Overview of the GNYHA/UHF Antimicrobial Stewardship Project C. Overview of the Toolkit D. Toolkit Map II. GETTING STARTED 9 A. Assessment of Current Practices B. Establishing a Team III. ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP STRATEGIES 13 A. Planning and Implementation B. Strategies IV. SUSTAINING AN EFFECTIVE ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM 17 A. Data Collection B. Making the Business Case for an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program C. Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs Support Infection Prevention Strategies V. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 21 VI. APPENDICES 23 1 2 PREFACE: OVERVIEW OF THE TOOLKIT CHAPTER I: WHY ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP? This chapter describes the burden of antimicrobial resistance and the rationale for an antimicrobial stewardship pro- gram. An overview of the GNYHA/UHF Antimicrobial Stewardship Project and a Toolkit “roadmap” are provided. CHAPTER II: GETTING STARTED This chapter describes recommended preliminary steps for health care facilities to initiate a comprehensive antimicrobial stewardship program. Specific ways to get started are highlighted, including assessing current practices and forming an antimicrobial stewardship team. CHAPTER III: ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP STRATEGIES This chapter describes essential elements and provides strategies used by health care facilities to plan and implement an effective antimicrobial stewardship program. Common challenges encountered while implementing an antimicrobial stewardship program and strategies to overcome them are also outlined. CHAPTER IV: SUSTAINING AN EFFECTIVE ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM This chapter offers a list of process and outcomes measures that may be used to monitor and assess the impact of an antimicrobial stewardship program. Recommendations on how to make the “business case” for antimicrobial steward- ship programs and how to sustain an effective stewardship program within an institution are included. Additionally, the relationship between antimicrobial stewardship programs and infection prevention strategies is discussed. CHAPTER V: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES CHAPTER VI: APPENDICES This chapter provides tools developed by health care facilities and resources created by GNYHA/UHF for the Antimicro- bial Stewardship Project. 3 CHAPTER I: WHY ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP? A. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND ment of cure, avoidance of toxicity, and other adverse Despite widespread efforts to control the spread of mul- effects) and of the larger population (avoidance of tidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), the incidence of emergence or propagation of antimicrobial resistance). infections attributed to MDROs among hospital patients Through ongoing monitoring and, when necessary, a continues to rise. Infections caused by MDROs are associ- change in antimicrobial prescribing practices (e.g., op- ated with a significant deterioration in clinical outcomes, timal selection, dose, duration, and route of therapy) including an increased risk of death and significantly successful stewardship programs have improved patient increased costs, mostly attributable to increased lengths care, decreased antimicrobial use and resistance, and of stay. In a study done by Cosgrove, cephalosporin-re- reduced unnecessary pharmacy expenditures, in addi- sistant Enterobacter infections increased mortality and tion to other direct and indirect hospital costs. In fact, length of stay, and resulted in an average attributable Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs (ASPs) have the hospital charge of $29,379.1 Further, antibiotic resis- potential to become financially self-supporting. Some tance is strongly correlated with antibiotic prescribing programs demonstrated a 22% to 36% decrease in anti- patterns. While antimicrobial usage has undoubtedly microbial use, which correlated to an annual savings of reduced mortalities caused by infections, resistance to $200,000 to $900,000.5 these drugs has also increased.2 Studies show that up to 50% of antimicrobial use is inappropriate, which may Some of the problems health care institutions currently include:3 face in implementing successful ASPs include communi- 1. Use of antibacterial medications for the treatment cating as a team about treatment plans and appropriate of syndromes not caused by bacteria; antibiotic selection. Additionally, the burden of control- 2. Treatment for culture results that reflect ling infection rates has traditionally been the sole re- colonization or contamination rather than sponsibility of infection control practitioners. However, infection; realizing an effective and sustainable ASP necessitates a 3. Administration of broad spectrum antibiotics where culture change that shifts responsibility for controlling narrow spectrum agents are equally effective; infection rates from one discipline to all members of the 4. Prescription of antibacterial therapy courses that health care team. This can only be achieved through are longer than necessary; and active, multidisciplinary participation: infectious dis- 5. Prescription of antibacterial agents at inappropriate ease-trained physicians, clinical pharmacists, clinical doses. microbiologists, hospital epidemiologists, senior institu- tional leadership, and champion prescribing physicians. Consequently, unnecessary or inappropriate use of an- tibiotics has increased rates of serious diseases or com- plications such as Clostridium difficile– (C. difficile–) associated diseases.4 To address these issues, health care institutions are beginning to rely on stewardship pro- 1. Cosgrove, S.E., K.S. Kaye, G.M. Eliopoulous, et al. “Health and Economic grams to manage antimicrobial usage with the goal of Outcomes on the Emergence of Third-generation Cephalosporin Resistance in Enterobacter Species.” Archives of Internal Medicine (2002) 162: 185–190. reducing the incidence of MDRO infections, improving 2. MacDougall C and R.E. Polk, “Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in patient outcomes, and reducing costs. Health Care Systems,” Clinical Microbiology Reviews (Oct. 2005) 638–656. 3. Gerding D.N. “The Search for Good Antimicrobial Stewardship.” Journal on Quality Improvement (August 2001) 27(8): 403–404. 4. Dellit T.H., R.C. Owens, J.E. McGowan, et al. “Infectious Disease Society Antimicrobial stewardship is a rational, systematic ap- of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America: proach to the use of antimicrobial agents in order to Guidelines for Developing an Institutional Program to Enhance Antimicrobial Stewardship.” Clinical Infectious Diseases (Jan. 2007) 44: 159–177 achieve optimal outcomes—those of the patient (achieve- 5. See note 4. 5 Chapter I: Why Antimicrobial Stewardship? cont. B. OVERVIEW OF THE GNYHA/UHF ANTI- physician and/or a clinical pharmacist—team members MICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP PROJECT communicated effectively and expressed enthusiasm to Funded by the NewYork State Department of Health continue this work. When one or more well-respected (DOH), from October 2009 to April 2010 the Greater clinical champions are committed to spearheading the New York Hospital Association (GNYHA), in
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