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.
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 standardised 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 recognises
- 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
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.
Related reading: what the accreditation standards ask for, building the empiric guideline. 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 artefacts, 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?
Not today, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. The product works on susceptibility data.
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