Show me the data: A statewide comparative report of National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use Option standardized antimicrobial administration ratios (SAARs)

Hana R Winders; Kayla Antosz; Majdi Al-Hasan; P Brandon Bookstaver; Pamela Bailey; Katie Waites; Julie Ann Justo

doi:10.1017/ash.2022.266

Show me the data: A statewide comparative report of National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antimicrobial Use Option standardized antimicrobial administration ratios (SAARs)

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2022 Jul 15;2(1):e119. doi: 10.1017/ash.2022.266. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Hana R Winders¹, Kayla Antosz², Majdi Al-Hasan^{3

4}, P Brandon Bookstaver^{1

2}, Pamela Bailey^{3

4}, Katie Waites⁵, Julie Ann Justo^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pharmacy, Prisma Health Midlands, Columbia, South Carolina.
² Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Outcomes Sciences, University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy, Columbia, South Carolina.
³ University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Prisma Health Midlands, Columbia, South Carolina.
⁵ South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, Columbia, South Carolina.

Abstract

The Antimicrobial Stewardship Collaborative of South Carolina created quarterly Comparative SAAR Analysis Reports based on standardized antimicrobial administration ratio (SAAR) data from the NHSN Antimicrobial Use (AU) Option. These reports provide SAAR histograms and site-specific feedback to participating facilities in South Carolina. They were created to improve antimicrobial use throughout the state, especially in rural regions.