Advocacy
Clinical Research
Community Pediatrics
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Emergency Medicine
Epidemiology
General Pediatrics
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Health Services Research
Hospital Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
School and Community Health
Rana El Feghaly, MD, MSCI (she/her/hers)
Professor
Pediatrics
Children's Mercy Kansas City, UMKC
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Matthew Kronman, MD, MSCE (he/him/his)
Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Washington School of Medicine
Seattle, Washington, United States
Session
Description: Antibiotic resistance, primarily driven by antibiotic overuse, is a threat to public health. “Antibiotic stewardship is a practice dedicated to prescribing antibiotics only when necessary and, when antibiotics are considered necessary, promoting use of the appropriate agent(s), dose, duration, and route of therapy to optimize clinical outcomes while minimizing the unintended consequences of antibiotic use.” Over 80% of antibiotics given to children are prescribed in the outpatient setting, and ambulatory stewardship (AS) is increasingly recognized as a target area for focused attention. Despite that, most institutions do not yet have robust outpatient AS programs, and very few have dedicated support for outpatient AS efforts.
During this session, national leaders in the field will highlight novel approaches to outpatient pediatric stewardship and discuss useful and effective outpatient stewardship interventions and techniques. These will include description of new areas of stewardship focus (such as dosing, duration, allergies), new benchmarking metrics used for antibiotic prescribing, identifying key issues that drive disparate antibiotic prescribing based on race and location, and learning ways to provide more equitable antibiotic prescribing.
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 all those who work in emergency departments, urgent care centers, ambulatory clinics, and ambulatory health care systems.
Speaker: Rana E. El Feghaly, MD, MSCI (she/her/hers) – Children's Mercy Kansas City
Speaker: Sameer J. Patel, MD MPH – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Speaker: Lauri Hicks, DO – CDC
Speaker: Torsten Joerger, MD, MSCE – Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Speaker: Laura Bio, PharmD (she/her/hers) – Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford
Speaker: Sophie E. Katz, MD, MPH – Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt