{"id":150,"date":"2016-04-21T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ws05\/blogportal\/enews\/?p=150"},"modified":"2016-04-21T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T21:24:02","slug":"welcome-to-the-antimicrobial-stewardship-program-blog-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/2016\/04\/welcome-to-the-antimicrobial-stewardship-program-blog-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Blog Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">Welcome to the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) blog page!\u00a0 We will\u00a0maintain a tab (Abx Stewardship)\u00a0on\u00a0the Connect the Doc\u00a0blog to provide you with\u00a0important resources\u00a0you need to make the best decisions for antibiotic prescribing for your patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Antimicrobial Stewardship is a nationwide initiative, endorsed by President Obama, and supported by the CDC, and many professional healthcare societies, with the goal to \u00a0optimize selection of antibiotics, dosing, duration, and clinical outcomes while minimizing unintended consequences of antimicrobial use, including toxicity and the selection for pathogenic\/resistant organisms.<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">1<\/span><\/sup><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">Our program here at Cooper uses a combined strategy of up-front antibiotic restriction\/approval and targeted chart reviews of high risk infections (such as bacteremia), bug-drug mismatches, and high risk antibiotics (such as piperacillin-tazobactam).\u00a0 We also review antiretroviral therapy regimens to ensure they are complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">We look forward to working with you!<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">Dana Byrne MD, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Director<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">Lucia Rose PharmD, \u00a0Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead Pharmacist <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">Henry Fraimow MD<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">Bill Chasanov DO, MBA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) blog page!\u00a0 We will\u00a0maintain a tab (Abx Stewardship)\u00a0on\u00a0the Connect the Doc\u00a0blog to provide you with\u00a0important resources\u00a0you need to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abx-stewardship","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cooperhealth.org\/ctd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}