Getting started with Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker

The Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker compares antibiotic orders with culture and susceptibility results, and puts the patients who may need a change of therapy in front of your stewardship pharmacists and physicians. Recommendations to prescribers, their responses and the reasons are recorded in one place. Use and resistance data are summarized by unit and prescriber for your stewardship committee and prepared for your NHSN reporting.

What it is for

Stewardship teams usually find their patients by running EHR reports each morning, cross-checking microbiology results by hand and keeping interventions in a spreadsheet. Bug-drug mismatches and long courses of empiric therapy can be missed between reports, recommendations to prescribers are made by phone or page and rarely recorded consistently, and when a surveyor or the committee asks what the program achieved, someone assembles the numbers by hand.

• Antibiotic orders and culture results live in different systems and are matched by hand
• Patients who need review are found by daily reports rather than as results arrive
• Recommendations and prescriber responses are recorded inconsistently, if at all
• Use, resistance and intervention data are assembled by hand for committees and surveyors

Who uses it

• Antimicrobial stewardship pharmacists and physician leads in hospitals and health systems
• Infectious diseases physicians who advise on therapy
• Infection prevention and microbiology teams who share resistance data
• Quality, pharmacy and therapeutics, and medical staff committees who oversee the program
• Accreditation and compliance staff who prepare for surveys

Before you start

• Your organization licenses Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker from Moraph.
• A Moraph client account in that organization, signed in.
• Access to Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker in Moraph Apps, given by an administrator in the Moraph Portal under People and access.
• For setup: the product administrator role.

Steps to get started

1. Sign in at app.moraph.com with your Moraph account.

2. Open Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker from the launcher. The first time anyone opens it, its workspace is created from the default described in Workspace reference.

3. Check your role: what you can see and do depends on it. See Roles and permissions.

4. Product administrators: work through Set up Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker before your team starts.

5. Everyone else: start with Everyday tasks.

Where to go next

• Set up Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker
• Everyday tasks
• Connect your systems
• Security, data and compliance
• Troubleshooting and the support guide
• Product overview on moraph.com