Learning Objectives
Participants in the acute care hospitals cohort meet for one-hour sessions to:
- Discuss the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Hospitals
- Understand the benefits of the CDC’s National Healthcare Surveillance Network’s Antimicrobial Use (AU) module and analyze hospital annual surveys specific to antibiotic stewardship preparedness
- Identify barriers to improving antimicrobial utilization
- Describe commonly used antimicrobial stewardship implementation strategies
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Team Leads
Zachary (Zach) Willis, MD, MPH is the Director of the Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at UNC Health and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Disease at UNC School of Medicine. Dr. Willis completed a pediatric residency and fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases before joining the faculty of the UNC Department of Pediatrics in September 2016. Dr. Willis’s research is primarily focused on promotion of appropriate use of antibiotics in children in both inpatient and outpatient settings. He also studies the epidemiology and prevention of antibiotic-associated complications, such as antibiotic-resistant infections and C. difficile infections. In his role as the director of the pediatric antimicrobial stewardship program for UNC Health Care, Dr. Willis closely follows the epidemiology of highly drug-resistant organisms and current evidence-based strategies for optimal treatment.
James W. (Jim) Johnson, PharmD, BCPS [AQ-ID] completed his pharmacy training at the University of Colorado and the Medical University of South Carolina. His clinical practice in Infectious Diseases pharmacotherapy spanned 29 years at two North Carolina Health Systems. He enjoyed caring for both inpatients and ambulatory patients to help optimize the use of antimicrobial medications. He participated in the antimicrobial stewardship effort in the Atrium Wake Forest Baptist Health system for 21 years. Jim enjoys mentoring trainees and colleagues and holds adjunct associate professor status in medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine and in pharmacy at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. His interests include antimicrobial pharmacotherapy, antimicrobial pharmacokinetics, viral infections, and antimicrobial stewardship.
SLIDES AND RESOURCES FOR YEAR 2 (AUGUST 2023 – JULY 2024)
Patients with Antibiotic Allergies and Intolerances
Right From the Start: Stewardship Interventions to Optimize Empiric antimicrobial Therapy for Inpatients
Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Session Resources
Stewardship Collaboration with the Clinical Microbiology Lab
Session Resources
Less Can Be More Even When Small: Enhancing Stewardship in Small Hospitals
Session Resources
Session Slides
Implementing CDC AS Core Elements in Small Hospitals
Pick Out a New Tool: Enhancing Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Hospital Through SMART Aims and Improved Interventions (9/13/23)
Session Resources
Session Slides
CDC SMART Aims Guide
Implementation Resources for Hospitals
Inpatient Stewardship Resources
- Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
- CDC SMART Aims Guide
- Implementation Resources for Hospitals
- Using NHSN AUR Module for the CMS Promoting Interoperability Program
- Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Options
- Pick Out a New Tool: Enhancing Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Hospital Through SMART Aims and Improved Interventions (9/13/23)
- Session 4, Core Elements #6 and #7: Reporting & Tracking (6/21/23)
- Session 3, Core Elements #4 and #5: Tracking to Support Stewardship (5/10/23)
- Inpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship Session 2, Core Element #3: Pharmacy Expertise and Action (4/12/23)
- Inpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship Session 1, Core Elements #1 and #2: Hospital Leadership Commitment and Accountability (3/8/23)