Save Money with Antibiotic Stewardship
Antibiotic stewardship programs and interventions help ensure that patients get the right antibiotics at the right time for the right duration. Numerous studies have shown that implementing an antibiotic stewardship program can not only save lives, but can save significant healthcare dollars. Read more. [ 1]
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The Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship  
This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, provides guidance for antibiotic stewardship in outpatient settings and is applicable to any entity interested in improving outpatient antibiotic prescribing and use. Read more.[ 2]
CDC’s Role in Antibiotic Stewardship
Bacteria will inevitably find ways of becoming resistant to existing and new antibiotics, which is why aggressive action is needed now to keep new resistance from developing and to prevent the resistance that already exists from spreading. Read more.[3]
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[1] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Save Money with Antibiotic Stewardship. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/week/downloads/gsw-factsheet-cost.pdf
[2] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/community/pdfs/16_268900-a_coreelementsoutpatient_508.pdf
[3] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC's Role in Antibiotic Stewardship. Available at : https://www.cdc.gov/drugresistance/cdc_role.html
This material was prepared by Health Services Advisory Group, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for California, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. Publication No. CA-11SOW-ASC-07112017-01