6- IAS Targets
Broad:
- Improving optimal utilization of antimicrobials by dept specific antibiogram and culture guided
- Decreasing turn around time for all microbiological diagnosis
- Zero tolerance to hospital acquired infections
- Achieving 100% vaccination to all health care workers
Narrow:
- Reducing empiric antibiotic prescriptions without cultures performed prior to initiation to <1% within 60 weeks
- Reducing unnecessary use of antibiotics > 7 days to <1% of courses within 60 weeks
- Reducing unnecessary use of antibiotics > 14 days to <1% of courses within 60 weeks
- Reducing concurrent use of ≥ 4 antibiotics to <1% within 60 weeks
- Reducing “double” or redundant antibiotic cover to <1% within 60 weeks
- Attaining 0% of hospital acquired infections within 60 weeks
