{"id":5353,"date":"2024-03-21T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/?p=5353"},"modified":"2024-03-21T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T19:53:21","slug":"ahrq-safety-program-for-telemedicine-improving-antibiotic-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/2024\/03\/ahrq-safety-program-for-telemedicine-improving-antibiotic-use\/","title":{"rendered":"AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving Antibiotic Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is your practice interested in improving appropriate use of antibiotics in telemedicine? The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is currently recruiting practices for a no-cost, 18-month program beginning in June 2024 to promote appropriate antibiotic use while maintaining patient satisfaction and reducing potential side effects in patients seen via telemedicine. Practices will receive training and one-on-one expert coaching to implement sustainable improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of infections in the telemedicine environment. Practices will learn how to improve workflow efficiencies and participants will be eligible for continuing education units (CEUs), continuing medical education (CME) credits, and American Board of Internal Medicine maintenance of certification (MOC) points. Learn more and sign up for an informational webinar on the program website: <a href=\"https:\/\/safetyprogram4telemedicine.org\/page\/home\">safetyprogram4telemedicine.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-15-49-36-PowerPoint-Presentation-AHRQ-Safety-Program-General-Flier.pdf.png\" alt=\"screenshot of AHRQ SAfety Program General Flier on antibiotic prescribing in telehealth\" width=\"600\" height=\"726\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-15-49-36-PowerPoint-Presentation-AHRQ-Safety-Program-General-Flier.pdf.png 720w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-15-49-36-PowerPoint-Presentation-AHRQ-Safety-Program-General-Flier.pdf-248x300.png 248w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-15-49-36-PowerPoint-Presentation-AHRQ-Safety-Program-General-Flier.pdf-600x726.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your practice interested in improving appropriate use of antibiotics in telemedicine? The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is currently recruiting practices for a no-cost, 18-month program beginning in June 2024 to promote appropriate antibiotic use while maintaining patient satisfaction and reducing potential side effects in patients seen via telemedicine. Practices will receive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/2024\/03\/ahrq-safety-program-for-telemedicine-improving-antibiotic-use\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about AHRQ Safety Program for Telemedicine: Improving Antibiotic Use\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103756,"featured_media":5355,"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":[66,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-15-49-36-PowerPoint-Presentation-AHRQ-Safety-Program-General-Flier.pdf.png","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-15-49-36-PowerPoint-Presentation-AHRQ-Safety-Program-General-Flier.pdf-248x300.png","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-15-49-36-PowerPoint-Presentation-AHRQ-Safety-Program-General-Flier.pdf.png","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-15-49-36-PowerPoint-Presentation-AHRQ-Safety-Program-General-Flier.pdf.png","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/563\/2024\/03\/Screenshot-2024-03-21-at-15-49-36-PowerPoint-Presentation-AHRQ-Safety-Program-General-Flier.pdf-150x150.png","featured_image_alt":"screenshot of AHRQ SAfety Program General Flier on antibiotic prescribing in telehealth","category_details":[{"name":"Education","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/category\/education\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353","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=5353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/casp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}