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Improving Evaluation of Urinary Tract Infections in the Elderly:
Collaborative on Antibiotic Stewardship for Seniors in Long Term Care

This initiative currently supports long term care facilities and long term acute care hospitals to improve evaluation and treatment of urinary tract infection and asymptomatic bacteriuria in long term care residents, in order to reduce the inappropriate use of antibiotics. A prior program offered tools and supports for hospital emergency departments, and these tools are also available below.

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Final Workshop Improving Evaluation & Treatment of UTI in the Elderly: A cross- continuum approach to antibiotic stewardship — June 18th, 2013

Agenda

Biographies - Faculty and Speakers

Opening Slides

Improving Diagnosis and Appropriate Treatment of Urinary Tract Infection: The National Perspective, Carolyn Gould, MD, MSCR, Medical Epidemiologist, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Looking back and looking ahead: Creating your story, Susanne Salem-Schatz, ScD, Health Care Quality Initiatives, CDI Prevention, Collaborative Director

Listening for Differences and Telling More Powerful Stories, Sharon Benjamin, PhD, Principal, Alchemy

Practice Improvement Lessons: What Matters
Presenting Teams

Bad Bugs - New threats in Healthcare Acquired Infections: CREs and ESBLs, Alfred DeMaria, MD, MPH, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Talking with families about UTIs, Bacteriuria & Antibiotics: slides for a family/resident council meeting, Irene Campbell, GNP

Coaching Call – March 8, 2013

Change in Mental Status in Long Term Care Ruth Kandel, MD, Director, Infection Control Hebrew SeniorLife

Kickoff Workshops: Decreasing Inappropriate Treatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria
Presentations – November 28 and December 5, 2012

Agenda

Biographies – Speakers

Opening Slides

To Treat or Not to Treat: That is the Question, Ruth Kandel, MD, Director, Infection Control Hebrew SeniorLife

Antibiotic Stewardship and the Misdiagnosis of UTI, Daniel Pallin, MD, MPH, Director of Research, Department of Emergency Medicine Brigham & Women's Hospital. (This is a large file and may take a minute to open.)

Communicating Across Settings, Paula Griswold, MS, Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors

Prudent Use of Antibiotics in Long Term Care Residents with Suspected UTI, Shira Doron, MD, Antimicrobial Steward Associate Hospital Epidemiologist Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases Tufts Medical Center (This is a large file and may take a minute to open.)

Strategies to Support Change in Your Facility, Susanne Salem-Schatz, Sc.D Program Director Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors

Materials to Support Change, Susanne Salem-Schatz, Sc.D Program Director Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors

The chart below includes a description of the materials listed here and an explanation of how to use them.

How Do We Know We Are Improving? Why Measurement Matters and How We Will Help.
Presenters:

  • Susanne Salem-Schatz, Sc.D, Program Director, Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
  • Nora McElroy, MPH, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

Bringing it Home: What Can We Do by Next Week, Susanne Salem-Schatz, Sc.D, Program Director, Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
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