Antimicrobial stewardship experts Shira Doron, MD and Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, MD of the Tufts Medical Center Antibiotic Stewardship Center of Excellence answer questions about antibiotic use challenges for long-term care facilities.
Learning Objectives:
Some common challenges are:
- Providers/leadership that are not on board with antibiotic stewardship efforts.
- Interpreting a wound culture that is now growing a potentially pathogenic organism, but the wound hasn’t changed clinically.
- Evaluating the appropriateness of antibiotics prescribed to residents during a hospital stay upon readmission.
- A resident’s family that demands antibiotics for their loved one in response to a positive urine culture.
Hosts:
- Dr. Shira Doron, Attending Physician, Hospital Epidemiologist and Antimicrobial Steward, Tufts Medical Center *Consultant, Sunovion
- Dr. Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, Attending Physician, Tufts Medical Center
Antibiotic Stewardship Office Hours with the Experts from Tufts Medical Center
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