Description
Improve diagnosis of UTI, reduce unnecessary UA and urine culture, and antibiotic use.
Project Resources
Core Elements
Action
Appointing a single leader responsible for program outcomes. Experience with successful programs show that a physician leader is effective.
Drug Expertise
Appointing a single leader responsible for program outcomes. Experience with successful programs show that a physician leader is effective.
Education
Educating clinicians about resistance and optimal prescribing.
Tracking
Monitoring antibiotic prescribing and resistance patterns.
PDSA Cycles
Progress on PDSA Cycle 1
- Educate nurses on how/when to appropriately ask for a UA.
- Develop systematic ways to improve UTI lab diagnostics in collaboration with health care system pharmacist.
- Presented TASP and F-ASB project to Med staff
- Plan for nursing education on when to appropriately ask for a UA.
- Presented UTI TASP workflow and 2019 guidelines to pharmacy staff in March 2022.
Challenge: Getting data for TASP collection form due to EHR.
Tracked patients on medical floor and using that data for TASP submission