Free E-module
ISAC is delighted to announce the launch of a new E-module in its series of short course on infection topics.
The course, "Resources for preparing and using antibiograms in hospital settings" is designed to help you increase your understanding about how and why antibiograms are used in hospital settings to help treat infections.
Course aims
This course is aimed at laboratories with no previous experience with antibiograms, up to those that are experienced but wish to learn more about how they can share their data with external surveillance systems. It functions as a guide to the resources that are available to assist with the preparation and dissemination of antibiograms as an aid to the antimicrobial stewardship activities of hospitals.
As this course is designed for learners with a range of experience, the top of each step contains recommendations on the target audience for that page. A description of each target audience along with the course content covered as a whole is as follows:
A. No experience with antibiograms
Audience A should have some prior experience with antimicrobial susceptibility testing but want to learn how to create and share antibiograms.
Content will cover background on antimicrobial susceptibility testing, preparing an antibiogram, best practices, sharing data internally and externally.
B: Some experience with antibiograms
Audience B should have some prior experience with antibiograms but want to learn how to improve and share them.
Content will cover preparing an antibiogram, best practices, sharing data internally and externally.
C: Experienced with antibiograms
Audience C should be experienced with antibiograms but want to learn how to share data with external surveillance systems.
Content will cover sharing antibiogram data externally.
Throughout the course, there will be signposting to guides, toolkits and other useful sources of information. There will also be quizzes to test your knowledge at various points throughout the course. All audiences are expected to attempt all questions. For audiences B and C, you may not read some question content on the course, however should be able to draw on your prior knowledge and experience to complete these.
By the end of this course, all audiences will be able to...
- Understand the different ways AST data are used in healthcare.
- Explain AST breakpoints.
- Explain the main features of a good antibiogram.
- Appreciate the need for guidelines and best practices in the making of antibiograms.
- Understand examples of the software available to record AST data and construct antibiograms.
- Know where to look for guides and further sources of information.
- Describe tools and surveillance systems for disseminating data.
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You can still access the other free E-modules in the series:
April 4th-2024
