“In” With Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship

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Baptist Health gratefully acknowledges the commercial support provided by Cepheid for the Antimicrobial Stewardship e-Learning Series.

Target Audience

Family Medicine Physicians, Internal Medicine Physicians, Hospitalists, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Nurse Practitioners, and all other prescribing providers.
 

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the importance of antimicrobial stewardship in the outpatient setting.
  • Illustrate the impact of diagnostic stewardship in the ambulatory care space.
  • Review the updated literature guiding appropriate antimicrobial prescribing.
  • Develop evidence-based tools with applications for daily practice.
Additional information
Bibliography: 
  • Dumkow LE. More than one and done: the continued challenged of identifying sustainable outpatient antimicrobial stewardship strategies. Clin Infect Dis. 2024; 78(5): 1128-30.
  • Singh HK, Claeys KC, Advani SD, et al. Diagnostic stewardship to improve patient outcomes and healthcare associated infection (HAI) metrics. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024; 45(4): 405-11. 
  • Martinez KA, Deshpande A, Stanley E, et al. Antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections in urgent care: a comparison of in-person and virtual settings. Clin Infect Dis. 2025; 80(1): 7-13.
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
Course opens: 
12/19/2025
Course expires: 
08/31/2028
Part of: 
Antimicrobial Stewardship e-Learning Series

Corey Frederick, Pharm.D., CPh., BCPS, BCIDP
Ambulatory Care Infectious Diseases Clinical Coordinator
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, Florida

Corey Frederick, Pharm.D., CPh., BCPS, BCIDP, faculty for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose. 

*Ineligible companies - Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. 

Disclosure Policy and Disclaimer

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
              
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 1.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
Please login or register for a Baptist Health CME account to take this course.

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