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)
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
(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)
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Jamie Wilkey, PharmD, RPh
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Activity Number
0064-9999-26-048-H05-P
Release Date:
Aug 10, 2026
Credit Expiration Date:
Aug 10, 2029
CE Hours
1.00