Program reporting
Antibiotic stewardship program software for the reporting nobody has time for
A stewardship program lives or dies on whether it can answer questions quickly. Most of the delay is not analysis, it is assembly.
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Short answer
An antibiotic stewardship program is the coordinated effort to improve how antibiotics are prescribed and used. The CDC Core Elements frame it as leadership commitment, accountability, pharmacy expertise, action, tracking, reporting and education. Antimicrobe covers one part of it well: the resistance side of tracking and reporting.
What this covers, and what it does not
Being precise about scope is more useful than claiming to cover everything. Antimicrobe works on susceptibility data, which means it produces the resistance half of your tracking. It does not receive prescribing data, so it does not compute days of therapy, defined daily doses or the standardized antimicrobial administration ratio, and it will not pretend to.
- Covered: the cumulative antibiogram, unit and source cuts, quarterly movement, MDRO counts, exports for the committee pack
- Not covered: antibiotic consumption metrics, prospective audit and feedback workflow, prescribing alerts, the electronic health record
The three reports a program is usually asked for
These are the recurring requests, and each one is a filter combination rather than a separate project.
- The annual cumulative antibiogram, in the shape the committee already recognizes
- The unit-level cut, most often intensive care, for the empiric guideline review
- The movement report: what changed since the last quarter, and on how many isolates
What CMS and the CDC Core Elements ask a program to track
Every US hospital that takes Medicare has to run an antibiotic stewardship program. The September 2019 CMS final rule wrote it into the infection control Condition of Participation at 42 CFR 482.42 for hospitals and 485.640 for critical access hospitals, and it requires the program to follow nationally recognized guidelines and to document its activities.
The CDC Core Elements are the guideline everyone uses. Tracking has two halves: antibiotic use, usually days of therapy reported through NHSN, and resistance, which starts with the facility antibiogram. Reporting means getting both back to prescribers, pharmacy and the medical staff in a form they will read. Most programs are strong on one half and rebuild the other by hand every year.
Which software covers which part of a stewardship program
No single product covers every Core Element, and buying one that claims to usually means paying for modules you already have in the EHR.
If the gap is the audit and feedback side, the options are compared in best antimicrobial stewardship software for community hospitals and on Sentri7 alternatives. Epic hospitals weighing their own module should read Epic antimicrobial stewardship module vs third-party tools.
| Program task | Usually done in | Antimicrobe |
|---|---|---|
| Prospective audit and feedback worklists | Pharmacy surveillance platform or the EHR stewardship module | No |
| Antibiotic use, days of therapy, NHSN AUR | EHR AUR package or a certified platform | No |
| Annual cumulative antibiogram | Lab system, WHONET or Excel | Yes, CLSI M39 rules applied and printed |
| Unit and specimen source cuts | Analyst request or spreadsheet | Yes, source cuts on Lab, unit cuts on Stewardship |
| Quarterly resistance trend and MDRO counts | Rarely done between antibiograms | Yes, on Stewardship with threshold emails |
| Committee pack | Slides built by hand | CSV and print exports with the rule receipt |
Defensibility is the point of the rule receipt
A committee will ask why a number moved. The honest answers are usually about method: a different period, a smaller denominator, a change in what counts as susceptible. Printing the de-duplication rule, the threshold and the intermediate handling under every matrix means that conversation takes a minute rather than a meeting.
Which plan fits your program
A single hospital whose program needs the annual antibiogram and source cuts, such as urine and blood, uses the Lab plan: $249 a month for 1 facility, 25,000 isolates a year and 2 seats, bought by card with no implementation fee.
A program that reviews ICU and ward cuts, watches MDRO rates each quarter, or covers a hospital plus its clinics or nursing home uses Stewardship at $749 a month for up to 3 facilities, 150,000 isolates a year and 8 seats. The builder at the top of this page runs the same engine on sample data.
Every limit is on the pricing page, and the full feature list is on antimicrobial stewardship software features.
Related reading: antibiotic stewardship software for nursing homes, what the accreditation standards ask for, building the empiric guideline, the long-term care version of the program, what a critical access hospital needs to buy. The four steps from susceptibility testing data to an antibiogram cover the method end to end.
Questions
On this page's topic
Does this satisfy accreditation requirements?
No software satisfies a requirement by itself. What accreditation asks for is a functioning program with documented tracking and reporting. This produces one of the artifacts, dated and with its method attached.
Can pharmacy residents use it for a project?
That is a common use for a single-facility plan: a resident gets a defensible year of data cut the way the project needs, without a month of spreadsheet work.
Do you support antibiotic use data as well?
No, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. The product works on susceptibility data. Days of therapy and NHSN AUR reporting come from your EHR or a pharmacy surveillance platform.
How much does antibiotic stewardship program software cost?
Pharmacy surveillance platforms such as Sentri7, VigiLanz and TheraDoc do not publish prices and add an implementation fee and an interface build. Antimicrobe publishes its prices: the Lab plan is $249 a month for the antibiogram, and Stewardship at $749 a month adds unit cuts, quarterly trends and MDRO counts for up to three facilities.
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