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Antimicrobial Stewardship Advocacy Toolkit
All healthcare providers and patients have the ability to make impactful changes that will preserve antimicrobial efficacy and improve patient safety. We developed this toolkit below to provide practical, ready-to-use resources to strengthen your antimicrobial stewardship practice and educate patients about the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.
You will find key principles and tips that include selecting the right drug, right dose, timely de-escalation, and appropriate duration of therapy. Stewardship also requires robust infection prevention, responsible antimicrobial disposal, and ongoing education.
Our mission at SIDP is to promote evidence-based, equitable, and sustainable antimicrobial stewardship. We recognize that pharmacists play a critical role in optimizing therapy and collaborating with healthcare teams to improve outcomes and reduce the risks of antimicrobial use, and our goal is to empower all healthcare practitioners and patients with the resources to create a healthier world.
Element 1: Commitment
- Commit to improving antimicrobial stewardship efforts by sharing your successes and stating your future direction with stakeholders in your own institution/healthcare system (C-suite executives, physicians, advanced practice providers, microbiologists, pharmacists, nurses, etc.)
- Join a global effort and pledge your commitment today! Any person, whether a healthcare professional or member of the general public, can pledge to only use
antibiotics when necessary to ensure safe and effective antimicrobials for now and the future.
Element 2: Action
1. Infection Prevention Strategies
- Encourage immunization and address vaccine hesitancy
- Talk to patients about flu, COVID-19, and RSV vaccines RESOU
- Instill vaccine confidence and address concerns with empathy
- Promote effective communication, champion health equity, and address misinformation
- Expand HIV/STI prevention efforts
- Talk to your patients about HPV vaccines
- Prescribe PrEP when appropriate (more resources available here)
- Join the NFID "Hands In for Handwashing" movement
2. Optimize the Treatment of Infections
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3. Antimicrobial Disposal and One Health
- Register your pharmacy to dispose medications safely
- Visit SIDP’s Antibiotic Disposal page for more information
- Share our Antibiotic Disposal Poster (English and Spanish) with your local pharmacies and patients
- Partner with veterinarians, public health officials, environmental scientists, and other stakeholders in your community
- Share our One Health educational handouts with clinicians and patients in your community
4. Promote your antimicrobial stewardship efforts
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Element 3: Education
Educate yourself and others about antimicrobial stewardship through these shared resources.
| Stewardship Basics for Clinicians | Inpatient Stewardship for Clinicians |
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| Outpatient Stewardship for Clinicians (English) |
Outpatient Stewardship for Clinicians (Español) |
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Certificates/Training Programs
Toolkits & Checklists
- British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy & BSAC Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkit: Both provide antimicrobial use education from a global perspective
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Acute Care Toolkit
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Long-Term Care Toolkit
- CDC Core Elements
- SHEA/IDSA Clinical Practice Guidelines for Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program
Additional Resources
- CDDEP Antibiotic Resistance: Developed the Drug Resistance Index (DRI) which informs of antibiotic effectiveness by country
- CIDRAP Antimicrobial Stewardship Project: Offers current, accurate, and comprehensive information regarding ASP
- Contagion: Integrated news resource that covers all areas of infectious diseases
- IDStewardship: Provides resources for learning about infectious diseases
- Keep Antibiotics Working: The campaign to end antimicrobial overuse includes coalition blog, action center, and letters, statements, and press releases
- The Pew Charitable Trusts Antimicrobial Resistance Project: This project focuses on antibiotic innovation and antibiotic use in human healthcare
- WHO Promoting Antimicrobial Stewardship: provides information on implementing practical antimicrobial stewardship interventions
Element 4: Share
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Promote ID Pharmacists Day every year on May 22nd
Participate in Antibiotic Awareness Week, annually from November 18th - 24th
- Follow (and share) SIDP social media accounts below for updated news!
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- Share other ways people are promoting antimicrobial stewardship with #SIDPAdvocacy
- Subscribe to our YouTube channel
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- Listen to our podcasts
Handout References
HPV Vaccines for Clinicians
- CDC. (2025, June 11). Cancers Linked with HPV Each Year
- CDC. (2024, August 20). HPV Vaccination
- Vaccines.(2022, July 15). Motivators and Barriers to HPV Vaccination: A Qualitative Study of Underserved Women Attending Planned Parenthood.
- NCHS Data Brief. (2017, Apr). Prevalence of HPV in Adults Aged 18-69: United States, 2011-2014.
- CDC MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. (2021, May 28). QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18-26 Years Who Ever Received a Human Papillomavirus Vaccine, by Race and Hispanic Origin and Sex - National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2019.
- CDC. (2021, February 25). Vaccinate with Confidence: COVID-19 Vaccines Strategy
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