Public Health
Infectious Diseases
Epidemiology & Health Services Pathway
Diversity and Inclusion
Community Pediatrics
Health Services Research
General Pediatrics
Emergency Medicine
Michael Smith, MD MSCE
Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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.
Presenter: Tiffani J. Johnson, MD, MSc – University of California, Davis
Presenter: Julia E. Szymczak, PhD – University of Pennsylvania
Presenter: Sameer J. Patel, MD MPH – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Presenter: Jeffrey S. Gerber, MD, PhD – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Presenter: Nicole M. Poole, MD, MPH – Children's Hospital Colorado
Presenter: Rana F. Hamdy, MD, MPH, MSCE – Children's National Hospital
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