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Finding Local Solutions to Emerging Health Challenges

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ASB 101

Description


TBD

Project Resources

Core Elements

Education

Educating clinicians about resistance and optimal prescribing.

PDSA Cycles


Progress on PDSA Cycle 1

Facility background:

  • Near Bozeman
  • Visiting surgeons – orthopedic
  • 1 general surgeon
  • Affiliated with Billings clinic – part of Cerner system
  • A lot of providers – hard to get them to use order sets
  • Stewardship
    • Colleen – pharmacist – works on stewardship on the side
    • A lot going on – no dedicated time

Urine cultures:

  • Changed reflex criteria mid-year – gets report from all settings
  • Everyone that comes into ER gets UA

Data collection:

  • Question – what is positive squamous cells?
    • Lab identifies some or many
    • Livingston – anything greater than 10 is abnormal
  • Question – capturing method of urine collection?
    • Keep track on separate excel sheet
  • Will only pull data from ER