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