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The Home Study: Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship in Delayed-Care Settings: A Clinical Decision Framework


Fee

$0.00

CE Hours

1.00

CE Units

0.100

Activity Type

Application

Target Audience(s)

Pharmacists

Accreditation(s)

Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education
University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

Joint Provider(s)

Jase Medical

 

(H) Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship in Delayed-Care Settings: A Clinical Decision Framework
 

Pharmacists lack a clinical decision framework for applying outpatient stewardship principles when patients face delayed or disrupted access to in-person care. The gap is most pronounced at the dispense window: OTC-to-Rx triage, contingency-prescription review, and refill assessment in rural, post-disaster, off-hours, or shortage-affected scenarios that standard outpatient stewardship guidance does not address.

Objectives

  • Apply CDC and IDSA outpatient antimicrobial stewardship core elements to patient scenarios involving delayed or disrupted access to in-person care.
  • Determine when antibiotic initiation is appropriate versus when watchful waiting or non-antibiotic management aligns with stewardship principles.
  • Demonstrate clinical reasoning regarding the appropriateness of contingency or standby antibiotic regimens for selected outpatient indications, weighed against stewardship principles.
  • Implement counseling strategies that support appropriate initiation, completion, and disposal of outpatient antibiotic regimens when in-person follow-up is not available.

Speaker(s)/Author(s)

Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, RPh
Director of Clinical Strategy and Healthcare Partnerships, Jase Medical

Activity Number

0064-9999-26-048-H05-P

Release Date: Aug 10, 2026
Credit Expiration Date: Aug 10, 2029

CE Hours

1.00