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2074. A Successful Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Campaign to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Outpatient Clinics and an Emergency Department
BACKGROUND: Acute Respiratory tract infections (ARI) are infections involving the upper respiratory tract. Most ARIs are viral in nature and self-limited in which most of the times antibiotic treatment is unnecessary. A recent VA medication utilization evaluation conducted in 28 medical centers iden...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810614/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1754 |
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author | Fatima. de Lima Corvino, Daniela Gauthier, Timothy Virginia Romero Alvarez, Maria Madaras-Kelly, Karl Lichtenberger, Paola |
author_facet | Fatima. de Lima Corvino, Daniela Gauthier, Timothy Virginia Romero Alvarez, Maria Madaras-Kelly, Karl Lichtenberger, Paola |
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description | BACKGROUND: Acute Respiratory tract infections (ARI) are infections involving the upper respiratory tract. Most ARIs are viral in nature and self-limited in which most of the times antibiotic treatment is unnecessary. A recent VA medication utilization evaluation conducted in 28 medical centers identified high rates of unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for ARI. Based on these analyses the VA National Academic Detailing Service (VANADS) created the ARI campaign, providing materials for VA systems to employ as the seek to improve ARI management. Our project consists of implementation of the ARI Campaign in a South Florida Veteran Affairs HealthCare System (Miami VAHS). METHODS: We utilized VANADS resources for our campaign. Activities included assessing ARI prescribing patterns, garnering stakeholder support, identifying pharmacist and physician champions, providing targeted academic detailing, handing out provider ARI guidance documents (in paper and electronically), disseminating provider-specific feedback with peer comparison, order-set development with advertisement, promoting appropriate coding, and reporting to the Miami VAHS antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) subcommittee. Campaign activities were initiated in October 2017. The ARI Campaign was selected as the priority item for FY-2019, from our annual ASP risk assessment with a goal of reducing antibiotic prescribing for ARI diagnosis to below 40%. We present the data up to March 2019. RESULTS: Baseline data from October 2015 through September 2017 revealed an antibiotic was prescribed to 1,651 of 2,843 (58%) encounters in which an ARI diagnosis was made in our system. In the months following ARI Campaign initiation, a decline in antibiotic prescribing for ARI diagnosis was found. In the most recent quarter (January–March 2019), the prescribing rate was 39%. Figure 1 shows system-wide vs. Florida region prescribing rates. Table 1 provides data by major site and for the top 10 priority providers we identified. CONCLUSION: Implementation of a multifaceted ARI Campaign at a single-center resulted in a substantial reduction in antibiotic prescriptions. Future work is warranted investigating which activities are most impactful for reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for ARI. [Image: see text] [Image: see text] DISCLOSURES: All authors: No reported disclosures. |
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spelling | pubmed-68106142019-10-28 2074. A Successful Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Campaign to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Outpatient Clinics and an Emergency Department Fatima. de Lima Corvino, Daniela Gauthier, Timothy Virginia Romero Alvarez, Maria Madaras-Kelly, Karl Lichtenberger, Paola Open Forum Infect Dis Abstracts BACKGROUND: Acute Respiratory tract infections (ARI) are infections involving the upper respiratory tract. Most ARIs are viral in nature and self-limited in which most of the times antibiotic treatment is unnecessary. A recent VA medication utilization evaluation conducted in 28 medical centers identified high rates of unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for ARI. Based on these analyses the VA National Academic Detailing Service (VANADS) created the ARI campaign, providing materials for VA systems to employ as the seek to improve ARI management. Our project consists of implementation of the ARI Campaign in a South Florida Veteran Affairs HealthCare System (Miami VAHS). METHODS: We utilized VANADS resources for our campaign. Activities included assessing ARI prescribing patterns, garnering stakeholder support, identifying pharmacist and physician champions, providing targeted academic detailing, handing out provider ARI guidance documents (in paper and electronically), disseminating provider-specific feedback with peer comparison, order-set development with advertisement, promoting appropriate coding, and reporting to the Miami VAHS antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) subcommittee. Campaign activities were initiated in October 2017. The ARI Campaign was selected as the priority item for FY-2019, from our annual ASP risk assessment with a goal of reducing antibiotic prescribing for ARI diagnosis to below 40%. We present the data up to March 2019. RESULTS: Baseline data from October 2015 through September 2017 revealed an antibiotic was prescribed to 1,651 of 2,843 (58%) encounters in which an ARI diagnosis was made in our system. In the months following ARI Campaign initiation, a decline in antibiotic prescribing for ARI diagnosis was found. In the most recent quarter (January–March 2019), the prescribing rate was 39%. Figure 1 shows system-wide vs. Florida region prescribing rates. Table 1 provides data by major site and for the top 10 priority providers we identified. CONCLUSION: Implementation of a multifaceted ARI Campaign at a single-center resulted in a substantial reduction in antibiotic prescriptions. Future work is warranted investigating which activities are most impactful for reducing unnecessary antibiotic prescribing for ARI. [Image: see text] [Image: see text] DISCLOSURES: All authors: No reported disclosures. Oxford University Press 2019-10-23 /pmc/articles/PMC6810614/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1754 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Abstracts Fatima. de Lima Corvino, Daniela Gauthier, Timothy Virginia Romero Alvarez, Maria Madaras-Kelly, Karl Lichtenberger, Paola 2074. A Successful Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Campaign to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Outpatient Clinics and an Emergency Department |
title | 2074. A Successful Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Campaign to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Outpatient Clinics and an Emergency Department |
title_full | 2074. A Successful Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Campaign to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Outpatient Clinics and an Emergency Department |
title_fullStr | 2074. A Successful Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Campaign to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Outpatient Clinics and an Emergency Department |
title_full_unstemmed | 2074. A Successful Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Campaign to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Outpatient Clinics and an Emergency Department |
title_short | 2074. A Successful Acute Respiratory Tract Infection Campaign to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in Outpatient Clinics and an Emergency Department |
title_sort | 2074. a successful acute respiratory tract infection campaign to improve antibiotic prescribing in outpatient clinics and an emergency department |
topic | Abstracts |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810614/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1754 |
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