LEADERSHIP COMMITMENT:
Dedicating necessary staff, financial and information technology resources is essential in order to ensure antimicrobial stewardship programmes can be implemented and embedded into prescribing practice.
Medical Audits TS+ Antimicrobial Stewardship bundle provides the technology to implement
Antibiotic Stewardship Programmes
ACCOUNTABILITY:
Appointing an individual staff member responsible for program outcomes and with overall responsibility for implementing the Antimicrobial stewardship programme
has been shown to be most effective.
Medical Audits TS+ Antimicrobial Stewardship bundle enables both Trust and Individual accountability with real time tracking of non compliances
DRUG EXPERTISE:
Appointing a single pharmacist leader responsible for working to improve antibiotic use.
Using Medical Audits TS+ Start Smart Audit Tool will provide real data on prescribing practice to assist with targeting actions to improve antibiotic use
ACTION:
Implementing at least one recommended action, such as “antibiotic time out” or “Focus” after 48 hours
Medical Audits Antibiotic Focus audit tool ensures standardised practices across your organisation helping you monitor compliance with antibiotic time out and Focus to ensure the correct antibiotic for the correct patient consistently.
TRACKING:
Monitoring antibiotic prescribing and resistance patterns
Medical Audits provide a suite of audit tools designed for mobile auditing that enable monitoring of compliance with prescribing practice and provision of immediate feedback in the clinical area
REPORTING:
Regular reporting information on antibiotic use and resistance to doctors, nurses and relevant staff
With TS+ Start Smart and Focus and Antibiotic Surveillance systems you can report usage information in real time – during the auditing process
EDUCATION:
Educating clinicians about resistance and optimal prescribing
Using our Mobile, data capture system to collect prescribing practice data and to provide detailed feedback to Clinicians on prescribing practices
Medical Audits Supports the Implementation of Antibiotic Stewardship Programmes
Using Medical Audits TS+ auditing system for antimicrobial stewardship will help
you monitor compliance with your antibiotic prescribing policy and evidence compliance
for clinical governance assurance
As with all Medical Audits’ systems, the data is available in real time on the audit
devices AND on up to the minute digital dashboards, providing staff with feedback
as soon as the audit is completed.