NJHA Antimibrobial Stewardship Collaborative - December 11, 2018

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The New Jersey Hospital Association's Institute for Quality and Patient Safety is committed to working with its members to improve hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship programs and associated patient outcomes.

Improving the use of antimicrobials in healthcare to protect patients and reduce the threat of antimicrobial resistance is a national priorty. Antimicrobial stewardship refers to a set of commitments and actions designed to "optimize the treatment of infections while reducint adverse events associated with antimicrobial use."

The mission of the NJHA Antimicrobial Stewardship Learning Action Collaborative is to promote the use of the appropriate agent, dose, duration and route od administration of antimibrobial agents both in the acute care setting and in post-acute care setting in order to improve quality of patient care and patient safety while reducing excessive cost to inappropriate use.