Pediatric ASP Toolkit

Communication Strategies

• Shared decision making (Coxeter P, Del Mar CB, McGregor L, Beller EM, Hoffmann TC. Interventions to facilitate shared decision making to address antibiotic use for acute respiratory infections in primary care. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2015;(11):CD010907.)
• CDC Training on Antibiotic Stewardship: Module 6 – Communication Training: A Key to Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing and Use.

Educating Patients

• U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week
• “Antibiotic Guardian” campaign
• Healthychildren.org
• Patient and public education on meat purchasing labels

Educating Clinicians

• CDC Training on Antibiotic Stewardship
• State Antibiotic Stewardship Implementation Resources
• Sanchez GV, Roberts RM, Albert AP, Johnson DD, Hicks LA. Effects of knowledge, attitudes, and practices of primary care providers on antibiotic selection, United States. Emerg Infect Dis. 2014;20(12):2041-2047
• Choosing Wisely Campaign
• Bugs & Drugs App
• Be Antibiotics Aware
• Need for & importance of local/regional outpatient antibiograms for antimicrobial stewardship

Spiekerman KM, Patel SJ, Patel R, Kociolek LK. Availability, Perceptions, and Characteristics of Antibiograms Among Illinois Pediatricians. Infect Drug Resist. 2016;9:269-274. 

Al-Sayyed B, Le J, Al-Tabbaa MM, et al. Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection in Ambulatory Primary Care Pediatrics: Are We Using Antibiotics Appropriately?J Pediatr Pharmacol Ther. 2019;24(1):39-44.