With financial support from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, AdventHealth is tackling antibiotics use for acute respiratory infections.
AdventHealth is launching an initiative to improve antibiotic stewardship for pediatric patients in the outpatient setting.
Antibiotic stewardship has several benefits, including lowering cost of care, reducing medication side effects, and addressing antimicrobial resistance. For pediatric patients, most antibiotics are prescribed in the outpatient setting.
"What makes what we are doing unique is the focus on ambulatory care," says Jeffrey Kuhlman, MD, MPH, chief quality and safety officer at AdventHealth. "We have launched a program that is focused on patients such as a parent bringing a child in for an acute respiratory tract infection including sinus and throat. In the U.S. healthcare system, there is very little emphasis on antibiotic use in the ambulatory setting for pediatric patients."
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Christopher Cheney is the CMO editor at HealthLeaders.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Antibiotic stewardship has several benefits, including lowering cost of care, reducing medication side effects, and addressing antimicrobial resistance.
AdventHealth's pediatric antibiotics stewardship initiative has three primary components: provider education, data dashboards, and electronic medical record optimization.
Pediatric antibiotics stewardship impacts core elements of CMO responsibilities such as patient safety.