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Course Description: Unnecessary and inappropriate antibiotic prescribing have led to the current state of multiple-resistant organisms and decrease choices for the empiric treatment of common infections in the outpatient setting. Responsible prescribing should be the goal of urgent care clinicians and all who prescribe antibiotics in the acute care and outpatient settings. Clinicians may perceive many potential challenges - the time involved, patients not being satisfied, poorer clinical outcomes - to the change in practice which will be required to reverse current prescribing practices.
Accreditation Statement
Submitting for Credit:
If you would like to submit for credit above, you must complete the 5 question knowledge tests and answer 3 out of 5 correctly as well as complete the evaluation.
Please email education@ucaoa.org with questions.
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Antibiotic Stewardship in Urgent Care - Part I & II
Keyword(s)
antibiotics
Part I
- Identify potential harms of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing;
- Apply recommendations from current clinical practice guidelines to complement the goals of antibiotic stewardship;
- Summarize rational antibiotic choices for antibiotic prophylaxis and infections commonly seen in urgent care practice;
- Describe common over-prescribing scenarios that can be easily stopped; and
- Compare which strategies may help patients better accept a decision to forgo antibiotics.
Part II
- Describe the impact that inappropriate prescribing has had on clinician's current ability to treat common infections commonly cared for in urgent care and other acute care settings (primary care office, emergency department);
- Access clinical resources to guide appropriate prescribing on an ongoing basis;
- Employ available tools and techniques to improve prescribing practices in oneself and colleagues;
- Inform patients about the harms of antibiotic use in a balanced fashion; and
- Implement strategies to help patients better accept a decision to forgo antibiotics.
Credit Information
2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits
Description
Part I: Recorded by the New England Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), in collaboration with the Urgent Care Association (UCA) on November 14, 2018.
1 hour and 4 minutes audio with synced PowerPoint.
Part II: Recorded by the New England Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), in collaboration with the Urgent Care Association (UCA) on December 11, 2018.
1 hour and 8 minutes audio with synced PowerPoint.
Speaker: Joseph Toscano, MD has worked in the areas of emergency medicine and urgent care for over twenty years. He has been an attending emergency physician at San Ramon Regional Medical Center in San Ramon, California since 1999 and is currently Chief of the department.
Dr. Toscano has worked in Urgent Care since 2005 and was previously a partner and corporate medical director for Pinnacle Medical Group, which operated five urgent care clinics in California and Arizona.
In addition to caring for patients, he is senior research editor for Emergency Medicine Practice, a monthly, evidence-based, emergency medicine CME publication. He is a member of the editorial boards for the journals, Emergency Medicine and the Journal of Urgent Care Medicine, and develops and reviews continuing medical education material in urgent care and emergency medicine for a variety of other publications and organizations.
He has been an active member of the Urgent Care Association since 2005, has presented clinical topics at many educational conferences and is currently the clinical content coordinator for UCA. He is a founding board member of both the Urgent Care College of Physicians (now called the College of Urgent Care Medicine) and the Board of Certification in Urgent Care Medicine under ABPS.
Disclosures:
UCA Clinical Content Advisor – Conferences, San Ramon Medical Center
Credit Information:
Designation Statement
The Urgent Care Association designates this internet enduring material activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Statement
The Urgent Care Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Submitting for Credit:
If you would like to submit for credit above, you must complete the 5 question knowledge tests and answer 3 out of 5 correctly as well as complete the evaluation.
Please email education@ucaoa.org with questions.
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