NQF: Antibiotics ‘Playbook’ to Synch with Accreditation Standards
Source: HealthLeaders Media News
In addition to aligning with coming standards from The Joint Commission, the document also promises to help hospitals follow existing guidelines from CMS and the CDC.
A new “playbook” on the appropriate use of antibiotics aims to help hospitals reduce rates of drug-resistant infections and prepare for new standards to be implemented in 2017 by The Joint Commission.
The playbook was released Wednesday by a group convened through the National Quality Forum’s National Quality Partners and was the subject of a telephone briefing with media in the afternoon.
In addition to aligning with Joint Commission coming standards, the document also promises to help hospitals follow existing guidelines from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We know antibiotics are critically important drugs when we need them,” said Arjun Srinivasan, MD, of the CDC, during an online release of the document. He is associate director for healthcare-associated infection prevention programs in the division of healthcare quality promotion.