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Expanding Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship: Practical Strategies, Novel Settings, and Sociobehavioral Influences

Chair(s)

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  Michael Smith, MD MSCE

  Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics
  Duke University
  Durham, North Carolina, United States
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  Alison Tribble, MD, MSCE

  Assistant Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
  Pediatrics
  University of Michigan
  Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Antibiotic stewardship has been defined as "coordinated interventions designed to improve and measure the appropriate use of antibiotic agents." More than 80% of all antibiotics given to children are prescribed in the outpatient setting, yet there remain few formalized activities to promote antibiotic stewardship in this setting. During this session, national leaders will highlight novel settings for outpatient pediatric stewardship and discuss useful and effective outpatient stewardship interventions and techniques. These will include best practices in communicating about antibiotics with parents, description of behavioral nudges to improve antibiotic prescribing, harnessing electronic tools to drive improvement, identifying best practices in use of ambulatory diagnostic tests to guide antibiotic management, and data demonstrating ways in which antibiotic prescribing for children is racially biased. This session will therefore provide practical tools for participants to improve the quality of their antibiotic prescribing, will address important issues of equity in medicine, and will be relevant to general pediatricians, hospitalists, emergency medicine and infectious diseases specialists, and those who work in emergency departments, urgent care centers, ambulatory clinics, and ambulatory health care systems.

Presentations:

• 9:00 AM - 9:15 AM US CT

  Racial Bias In Pediatric Antibiotic Prescribing in Outpatient Settings
  

  Presenter: Tiffani J. Johnson, MD, MSc – University of California, Davis
• 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM US CT

  Coaxing Commitment: Sociobehavioral Interventions to Improve the Use of Antibiotics in the Outpatient Setting
  

  Presenter: Julia E. Szymczak, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
• 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM US CT

  Less is More--Reducing Duration of Therapy in Outpatient Settings
  

  Presenter: Sameer J. Patel, MD MPH – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
• 9:45 AM - 10:00 AM US CT

  Diagnostic Stewardship in Outpatient Pediatric Settings
  

  Presenter: Jeffrey S. Gerber, MD, PhD – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM US CT

  Children Are Not ‘Little Adults’: Pediatric Antibiotic Stewardship in Non-Pediatric Outpatient Settings
  

  Presenter: Nicole M. Poole, MD, MPH – Children's Hospital Colorado
• 10:15 AM - 10:30 AM US CT

  Implementing Antibiotic Stewardship in Telemedicine and Urgent Care Settings
  

  Presenter: Rana F. Hamdy, MD, MPH, MSCE – Children's National Hospital
• 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM US CT

  Break
  

  Presenter: Belinda Thomas
• 11:30 AM - 12:00 PM US CT

  Click for Live Q&A: Expanding Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship: Practical Strategies, Novel Settings, and Sociobehavioral Influences
  

  Presenter: Belinda Thomas