Description
Overall goal: Reduce unnecessary prescribing
SMART goal: Data collection, data entry
Project Resources
Bonner
Bonner_Baseline submissions
Core Elements
Education
Educating clinicians about resistance and optimal prescribing.
PDSA Cycles
Progress on PDSA Cycle 1
Testing a change in urine culture collection and testing
We predict that we will find ASB’s that were inappropriately prescribed antibiotics/overprescribing, because the majority of urine samples are routinely cultured
Tara, Connie, Sara are involved in this PDSA
Formulation of test of change in process
Collect urine culture data from ER and inpatient
Data collection and entry completed for baseline. Some questions arose relating to specifics about urine cultures; whether to include data, and wanting to provide more information in a free text style.
As a team, meet & review facility information. Identify areas of improvement that we would like to focus on. (March 2023).
Invite ER provider to review information and meet with team. In search of new ASP team member &/or champion of ASB project. (April 2023)
Disseminate educational material to providers, Highlight the areas of opportunity that we would like to focus on. (May 2023)
June & beyond…..monitor for change, collect data, revisit areas of opportunity.