{"id":2528,"date":"2019-11-30T13:59:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-30T18:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2020-11-27T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T14:52:36","slug":"carolina-antimicrobial-stewardship-program-releases-2019-annual-newsletter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/2019\/11\/carolina-antimicrobial-stewardship-program-releases-2019-annual-newsletter\/","title":{"rendered":"Antibiotic time-out scale up, pediatric appendicitis study featured in 2019 CASP Newsletter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/02\/Antibiotic-Week-Newsletter_2019_FINAL.pdf\">2019 Annual Newsletter <\/a>features updates on its efforts, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2596 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-300x300.png\" alt=\"Badge showing advanced partnership for antimicrobial stewardship\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Renewed recognition from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services<\/strong>: NC DHHS renewed UNC Medical Center&#8217;s Advanced Level 2 Antibiotic Stewardship STAR Partner Facility<a href=\"https:\/\/epi.dph.ncdhhs.gov\/cd\/antibiotics\/star_partners.html\"> rating<\/a> for a second year, in recognition of its comprehensive antimicrobial stewardship program. UNCMC is the only hospital in the Triangle region to achieve this level of recognition.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Results of efforts to scale up antibiotic time-outs<\/strong> across the UNC Medical Center by encouraging the transition from empiric to targeted antibiotics based on clinical and microbiologic data, and discontinuing as soon as infections are cleared<\/li>\n<li><strong>Results from a recent study on appropriate management of pediatric appendicitis<\/strong>, with a focus on reducing unnecessary broad-spectrum antibiotics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more on these and other updates, view the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/02\/Antibiotic-Week-Newsletter_2019_FINAL.pdf\">newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program 2019 Annual Newsletter features updates on its efforts, including: Renewed recognition from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services: NC DHHS renewed UNC Medical Center&#8217;s Advanced Level 2 Antibiotic Stewardship STAR Partner Facility rating for a second year, in recognition of its comprehensive antimicrobial stewardship program. UNCMC is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/2019\/11\/carolina-antimicrobial-stewardship-program-releases-2019-annual-newsletter\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Antibiotic time-out scale up, pediatric appendicitis study featured in 2019 CASP Newsletter\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103756,"featured_media":2596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-300x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-768x768.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-1024x1024.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2020\/03\/STAR-Partner-ADVANCED-bkgd-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"Badge showing advanced partnership for antimicrobial stewardship","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[{"name":"2019","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/tag\/2019\/"}],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/103756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}