2. National Healthcare Safety Network Antimicrobial Use (AU) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Module Survey

This survey is being conducted by the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) Policy and Government Affairs Committee (PGA). 

The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use and Resistance (AUR) Module provides a mechanism for facilities to report and analyze antimicrobial use and/or resistance data to inform benchmarking, reduce antimicrobial resistant infections through antimicrobial stewardship, and interrupt transmission of resistant pathogens at individual facilities or facility networks.

The CDC has been collecting characteristics of reporting health systems, and working to identify barriers to implementing the NHSN AUR Module.  There is an unmet need in how to optimize use of data received from the the NHSN AU and AR Module.  We therefore aim to evaluate how various hospitals/hospital systems utilize the NHSN AU and AR module to improve antimicrobial stewardship.

If you are a healthcare professional at an institution in the USA who works with antimicrobial use and/or antimicrobial resistance data we invite you to answer these questions to the best of your ability.

Additionally, please forward this survey to other colleagues at your site who are also involved in the process, especially if they are not a member of SIDP or the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).

This study has been reviewed and deemed exempt by the IRB at University of Washington (STUDY00008038).