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U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week 2024: Penicillin Allergy Delabeling as a Tool for Inpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship: A Real-World Experience

ACPE Activity Number: 0204-0000-24-159-H01-P 
Release Date: 11/19/2024
Expiration Date: 11/19/2027 
Activity Type: Application-based 
CE Credits:  1.0 contact hour, (0.10 CEU)
Activity Fee: Member – Free / Non-Member – Not Available

This activity is a recording from a live webinar and those that claim credit for the live webinar should not claim credit for this activity.

Activity Overview 

As part of the annual observance for U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week, Dr. Neuhauser will provide an update on uptake of the Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs and recently released resources will be highlighted. Drs. Stollings and Stone will describe the validation of penicillin allergy risk assessments, the creation of hospital-based workflows to evaluate and delabel low-risk penicillin allergies, a five year real-world experience delabeling allergies at the point of care, the observed effects of delabeling on stewardship so far, and directions for the future.

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This activity is intended for pharmacists involved in direct patient care, antibiotic stewardship and who may manage patients with penicillin allergy designation or who have an interest in learning more about strategies for penicillin allergy delabeling.

After participating in this CPE activity, participants should be able to:

  • Summarize CDC’s progress and initiatives regarding hospital antibiotic stewardship programs.
  • Identify validated risk assessment tools that can be used for inpatient point of care penicillin allergy delabeling.
  • Describe the integration of penicillin allergy delabeling into clinical pharmacy workflow.

  • Introduction and Announcements 

  • Presentation  

  • Questions, Answers, and Discussion 

  • (Moderator) Kayla Waldron, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FASHP, Director, Medication Use and Quality Improvement, ASHP Office of Practice Advancement
  • Melinda Neuhauser, PharmD, MPH, FCCP, FASHP, FIDP, Pharmacist and Acute Care Lead, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office of Antibiotic Stewardship, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
  • Cosby Stone, Jr., MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Allergy, Pulmonology, and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Joanna Stollings, PharmD, FCCM, BCPS, BCCCP, Medical Intensive Care Unit Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

In accordance with our accreditor’s Standards of Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, ASHP requires that all individuals in control of content disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies. An individual has a relevant financial relationship if they have had a financial relationship with an ineligible company in any dollar amount in the past 24 months and the educational content that the individual controls is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company. 

An ineligible company is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. The presence or absence of relevant financial relationships will be disclosed to the activity audience. 

  • No one in control of the content of this activity has a relevant financial relationship (RFR) with an ineligible company. 

This activity consists of recordings of faculty slides presentations, active learning activities, discussion, and handouts. Participants must participate in the activity in its entirety to claim continuing pharmacy education credit online at ASHP Learning Center. Follow the prompts online to complete the evaluation, claim credit and view the statement of credit immediately after completing the activity. 

Per ACPE requirements, CPE credit must be claimed within 60 days of being earned. Once you have processed and claimed your CE credit, we encourage you to check your NABP eProfile account to verify your credits were transferred successfully before the ACPE 60-day deadline. It is an electronic direct-report process so your credits should appear in your account within a few minutes. After the 60 day deadline, ASHP will no longer be able to report your credit(s) for this activity. 

 

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