


Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship
Core Element Two: Action for Policy and Practice
Core Element Three: Tracking and Reporting (Audit and Feedback)
The Atlantic Quality Innovation Network (AQIN) is one of 14 Medicare-funded Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) operating across the U.S. AQIN includes IPRO (NY), The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (SC) and Qlarant (DC). As QIO we can assist you to achieve the CDC’s core elements of outpatient antibiotic stewardship and reduce antibiotic resistance and its financial impact. As a part of the national QIO effort, we offer technical assistance in the form of webinars, newsletters, electronic resources, individualized coaching calls, best practice initiatives, environmental scan reports on antibiotic use and interaction with expert consultants to assist with facilitating the initiation and/or expansion of antibiotic stewardship. Participation in the program includes tracking your facility’s progress toward adoption and operationalization of the CDC core elements.
Antibiotic Stewardship in the Outpatient Setting
- Is the effort to measure and improve antibiotic prescribing
- Ensures right drug, right dose, and right duration of the selected antibiotic
- Maximizes the benefit of antibiotics and minimizes the potential harm of antibiotics including resistance and avoidable adverse drug events. The most modifiable risk factor for antibiotic resistance is inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics.
- Addresses over prescribing, under prescribing and/or mis-prescribing
- Establishes standards for antibiotic prescribing that are setting/infection specific
- Protects patients and improves clinical outcomes in outpatient health care settings.
Initiatives
- Cardiovascular Health
- Care Coordination
- Community Based Sepsis
- Diabetes Self-Management
- Drug Safety
- Immunization
- MAPPP
- Nursing Home Quality
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- Nursing Home Quality (NY)
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- QAPI Self-Assessment
- CASPER Data
- Eliminating Inappropriate Antipsychotic Medication Use
- Clinical Quality Measures (QM)
- Composite Measure Score
- NHQCC Collaborative I Kick-Off
- NHQCC Collaborative I Outcomes Congress
- QI/QAPI
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- Using a System's Approach to Quality & Performance Improvement
- Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (NHQCC) Learning
- Engaging Staff in Individualized Care
- QAPI Self-Assessment and Related Resources
- QAPI In Action
- Quality Improvement (QI) Resources
- Quality Improvement Strategies
- Steps to QAPI
- Elements for Framing QAPI in Nursing Homes
- Clinical Topics
- Resources
- Consumers
- Nursing Home Quality (DC)
- Nursing Home Quality (SC)
- Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship
- Quality Payment Program
- Transforming End of Life
Contact Us
New York
Teresa Lubowski, Pharm. D., B.S.
Pharmacist - Quality Improvement
20 Corporate Woods Blvd
Albany NY 12211
Tel: 518-320-3525
Fax: 518- 426-3418
teresa.lubowski@area-i.hcqis.org
District of Columbia
Jennifer Thomas, PharmD
Medication Safety, Immunizations, &
Antibiotic Stewardship
Atlantic Quality Innovation Network – District of Columbia
Qlarant
7067 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite 290
Columbia, Maryland 21046
Tel: 410-872-9698
(800) 876-3362, Ext. 11565
Secure Fax (516) 233-3355
thomasj@qlarant.com
Lisa Nanton, CPhT
Quality Improvement Coordinator
Atlantic Quality Innovation Network – District of Columbia
Qlarant
7067 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite 290
Columbia, Maryland 21046
Tel: 410-872-9662
(800) 876-3362, Ext. 11502
Secure Fax (516) 233-3355
nantonl@qlarant.com
South Carolina
Christine Wlodarczyk, MSN, RN, CCRN-K
Quality Specialist, SC-AQIN/QIO
The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME)
12040 Regency Parkway, Suite 100,
Cary, NC 27518
Direct: 803-212-7520
Fax: 516-233-3358
cwlodarczyk@thecarolinascenter.org