Antimicrobial Stewardship Resources and Training

• Antibiotic Stewardship | The Joint Commission 

• AMR: Combat Antimicrobial Resistance (antimicrobialresistancefighters.org) 

• Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) 

• Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB): 

• Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP): 

  • SIDP Antimicrobial Stewardship Certificate Programs

• Supporting state and territorial health agencies | ASTHO 

  • Antimicrobial Resistance | ASTHO 

• Texas DSHS Antimicrobial Stewardship Regional Advisory Committees 

• Texas Epidemic Public Health Institute (TEPHI) 

• The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) 

• Antibiograms - DSHS Health Safety Network Reports (texas.gov) 

  • Annual Reports - DSHS Health Safety Network Reports (texas.gov) 

• Antibiograms | UTMB Test Directory | UTMB Home 

• The Nursing Home Antibiogram Program Toolkit: How To Develop and Implement an Antibiogram Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (ahrq.gov) 

• Antibiotic Stewardship (AS) 
  • CDC Core Elements of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program: 
    • Hospitals
    • Health Departments
    • Nursing Homes/Long-Term Care Facilities
    • Outpatient
    • Small and Critical Access Hospitals 
    • Resource-Limited Settings 
    • Outpatient Telemedicine 
• About Antimicrobial Resistance (AR)/Antibiotic Use (AU) 
  • Improving AU: 
    • Antibiotic Use in the United States, 2023 Update: Progress and Opportunities 
• About Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)  
  • Morbidity and Mortality Rates 
  • Where Resistance Spreads 
  • Controlling the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance 
  • Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2019 
• Antibiotic Resistance Laboratory Network (ARLN): 
  • The Texas ARLN 
    • The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Laboratory is designated as the regional laboratory for the Mountain Region (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas). 
  • Notifiable Conditions List  
• National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) 
• Patient Safety Atlas–Data Sets: 
  • Antimicrobial Resistance 
  • Antibiotic Use and Stewardship 
  • Geographical Location 
  • Healthcare Personnel Vaccination 
  • Healthcare and Community Associated Infections 

Research Articles: 

• Educating Patients on Unnecessary Antibiotics: Personalizing potential harm aids patient understanding - PMC (nih.gov) 

• Facilitators and Barriers to Antibiotic Stewardship: A Qualitative Study of Pharmacists’ Perspectives 

• Interventions to optimize antimicrobial stewardship - PMC (nih.gov) 

• National Survey Reveals Barriers to Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Efforts 

• Regional and national antimicrobial stewardship activities: a survey from the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance—Primary Care Antibiotic Audit and Feedback Network (JPIAMR-PAAN) | JAC-Antimicrobal Resistance | Oxford Academic (oup.com) 

Resources/Education: 

• AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): 

  • Antimicrobial Stewardship 

  • Drug resistance 

  • Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide 

  • AHRQ Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use: Final Report 

• CIDRAP's Antimicrobial Stewardship Project offers up-to-date information and fosters an online community to address key concerns. 

• Educational Resources: Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology 

• National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS): 

  • NARMS Now: Human Data 

  • NARMS Now: Integrated Data 

  • NARMS: Animal & Veterinary 

• National Quality Forum 

  • Tools and Resources | qioprogram.org 

• Nursing Facilities (NF) | Texas Health and Human Services 

• Resistance Map is a web-based collection of data visualization tools that allows interactive exploration of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antibiotic use trends in countries across the globe.

• Strategies for Superbugs: Antibiotic Stewardship for Rural Hospitals 

• Talking With Residents and Family Members About Antibiotics (ahrq.gov) 

• The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP)

• The Hospital Pharmacist's Guide to Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs 

• U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) 

  • Antimicrobial Resistance Information from FDA  

  • FDA - Combating Antibiotic Resistance 

Videos: 

• Antimicrobial Resistance Fighter Coalition (YouTube)

• CDC | Antibiotic Resistance Videos (YouTube)

• CDC | Dialysis Safety Videos (YouTube)

• CDC | NHSN Training Videos (YouTube) 

• CDC | Safe Healthcare Webinars (YouTube)

Training: 

• AHRQ: Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision-Making in Antibiotic Prescription 

• Antibiotic Study Cheat Sheet.docx (idstewardship.com) 

• Antimicrobial Stewardship Course: The Basics! | ID Online Training  

• CDC train for Antibiotic Stewardship for Providers 

• CDC: Nursing Home Infection Preventionist Training 

• CDC's Antibiotic Stewardship Training Series 

• CDC's/STRIVE's Infection Control Training 

• Mitigate antimicrobial stewardship toolkit 

• Antimicrobial Stewardship Program | Johns Hopkins Medicine 

• Center for Antimicrobial Utilization, Stewardship, and Epidemiology (CAUSE) | Wake Forest University School of Medicine (wakehealth.edu) 

• College of Pharmacy (utexas.edu) 

• Colorado Hospital Association (CHO) - Antimicrobial Stewardship Program 

• Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention 

• Fisch College of Pharmacy | UT Tyler 

• Penn CDC Prevention Epicenters Program - Antimicrobial Stewardship Initiative 

• Public Health Ontario (PHO) - Antimicrobial Stewardship Program 

• Stanford University School of Medicine - Antimicrobial Stewardship Program  

• The Ohio State University - Antimicrobial Stewardship Program 

• National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Newsletters

• APIC: Role of Infection Preventionists and Patients in Antibiotic Stewardship 

• APIC: The ABC's of Antibiotics 

• Be Antibiotics Aware: Smart Use, Best Care | Patient Safety | CDC 

• CDC: Antibiotics Aren't Always the Answer 

• Patient Resources and Education | Antibiotic Use | CDC