{"id":2669,"date":"2018-09-01T17:28:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T21:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/?p=2669"},"modified":"2020-11-27T09:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T14:54:31","slug":"willis-selected-as-ihqi-improvement-scholar-for-antibiotic-time-outs-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/2018\/09\/willis-selected-as-ihqi-improvement-scholar-for-antibiotic-time-outs-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Willis selected as IHQI Improvement Scholar for antibiotic time-outs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2595\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 210px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2016\/12\/WillisEdit-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"bio pic of Zachary Willis\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2016\/12\/WillisEdit-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2016\/12\/WillisEdit.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Willis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more-->Zachary Willis, MD, MPH was named an Institute for Healthcare Quality Improvement (IHQI) Improvement Scholar for the 2018-19 period. He will implement antibiotic time-outs at Hillsborough Hospital, which is a part of UNC Medical Center. Willis is Director of Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship for the Carolina Antimicrobial Stewardship Program.<\/p>\n<p>Antibiotic time-outs are formal reassessments of antimicrobials prescribed to patients under the care of a clinical team. Time-outs typically take place two to three days following the start of antimicrobial treatment. A time-out provides a structured \u201cpause\u201d: the healthcare provider takes new information into account\u2013such as results from blood or urine cultures and how the patient is responding to the drug &#8212; and decides if adjustments are needed to the drug, dose, duration, or delivery. For example, drugs can be selected to more precisely target the organism identified in a culture, discontinued if the patient is not found to have an illness that will respond to antimicrobials after all, or changed from IV to oral delivery. Sometimes, a time-out confirms that no change is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence shows that time-outs are a useful tool to ensure patients receive optimal antimicrobial treatment and helps reduce unnecessary, redundant, or longer-than-needed antimicrobial use. While these drugs can be a life-saving tool, their misuse contributes to the growing global public health problem of antimicrobial resistance. To preserve the effective life-span of antimicrobial drugs, it is hoped that interventions such as antibiotic time-outs will help to combat resistance as a part of wider antimicrobial stewardship efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":103756,"featured_media":2595,"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":[7],"class_list":["post-2669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-7","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2016\/12\/WillisEdit.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2016\/12\/WillisEdit-200x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2016\/12\/WillisEdit.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2016\/12\/WillisEdit.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2016\/12\/WillisEdit-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"bio pic of Zachary Willis","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[{"name":"2018","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/tag\/2018\/"}],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669","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=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}