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Urinary Tract Infection – Guidelines
Guidelines for Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety (HMS) Consortium
Urinary Tract Infection and Asymptomatic Bacteriuria Guidance Nebraska Medicine
URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS IN ADULTS Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan
UTI References
International Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Cystitis and Pyelonephritis in Women: A 2010 Update. Infectious Diseases Society of America and the European Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Topic: Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) AHRQ
UTI Toolkit
Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals AHRQ
Appendix K. Infographic Poster on CAUTI Prevention (ahrq.gov)
UTI Clinical Pearls
Single-Dose Aminoglycoside for Cystitis: An Oldie but Goodie – KY Antimicrobial Stewardship Innovation Consortium
Staphylococcus aureus in a urine culture – KY Antimicrobial Stewardship Innovation Consortium
Aminopenicillins for Enterococcal Cystitis: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks – KY Antimicrobial Stewardship Innovation Consortium
Skin and Soft Tissue Infection
Cellulitis: Information for Clinicians (CDC)
IDSA Skin & Soft Tissue guidelines 2014
Skin and Soft Tissue Infections: Treatment Guidance Jasmine R Marcelin MD, Trevor Van Schooneveld MD, Scott Bergman PharmD Reviewed by: Mark E Rupp MD, M. Salman Ashraf MBBS
AAFP patient education materials
SHC Clinical Guideline: Outpatient Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Prophylaxis/SSI
Additional guidelines (all adapted from consensus guidelines):
ASHP Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prophylaxis in Surgery.
Stanford Health Care- Surgical Prophylaxis Guidelines
University of Michigan- Surgical Prophylaxis Guidelines
University of California San Francisco- Surgical Prophylaxis Guidelines
ICHE Compendium 2022- Updated Surgical Site Infection Prevention Compendium
IV to PO Conversion
Article – Intravenous-to-Oral Switch Therapy: Overview, Antibiotics, Antidepressants (medscape.com)
Article – (2023) – Switching patients from IV to oral antimicrobials – The Pharmaceutical Journal (pharmaceutical-journal.com) (from the UK)
Guidelines
Galway Antimicrobial Prescribing Policy / Guidelines (GAPP) – Galway: GAPP (megsupporttools.com)
(2018) Intravenous to Oral Conversion for Antimicrobials (northernhealth.ca)
SHC-IV-to-PO-Interchange-Protocol.pdf (stanford.edu)
A Resource To Help With Changing From IV To PO Antibiotics (idstewardship.com)
Public Health Ontario: https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-/media/documents/A/2016/asp-iv-oral-conversion.pdf
Community Acquired Pneumonia- Updated Recommendations ATS and IDSA 2020
ATS/IDSA Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Adults with Community Acquired Pneumonia 2019
C. difficile
Clinical-Pearl-CDI-Risk-2.8.23.pdf (kymdro.org)
CDI Prevention Strategies- https://www.cdc.gov/cdiff/clinicians/cdi-prevention-strategies.html
MN Department of Health C difficile guidelines https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/cdiff/hcp/guidelines.html
UC Davis Guidelines 2021 https://health.ucdavis.edu/antibiotic-stewardship/pdfs/cdi_tx_ucd.pdf
University of Nebraska 2021 https://www.unmc.edu/intmed/_documents/id/asp/clinicpath-cdi_final.pdf
UNC Medical Center 2022 https://www.med.unc.edu/pediatrics/cccp/wp-content/uploads/sites/1156/gravity_forms/1-c06e424ddddee8826f29e1bc5926a251/2022/11/CASP-UNCMC-CDI-Guideline_FINAL.pdf
AHRQ Best Practices in the Diagnosis and Treatment of C difficile 2019
Management of C difficile in adults: review and comparison of IDSA/SHEA, ESCMID and ASID guidelines
IDSA C difficile clinical practice guidelines in adults: 2021 Update by SHEA/IDSA