DASON Operations Director and Liaison Pharmacist, Dr. Libby Dodds Ashley, worked with a team from Rochester NY to reduce fluoroquinolone use and C. difficile infections in community nursing homes through hospital-nursing home collaboration. Nursing homes (NHs) are an important target for antibiotic stewardship (AS). We describe a collaborative model to reduce Clostridioides difficile infections (CDIs) in NHs through optimization of antibiotic use including a reduction in high-risk antibiotics such as fluoroquinolones.
See article on Science Direct.