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Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker glossary
Terms used in Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker and its documentation.
Applies to Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker as it works today. Moraph updates the platform continuously, and this page is reviewed when it changes.
Terms used in Antibiotic Stewardship Tracker and its documentation.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Bug-drug mismatch | A culture result showing the organism is not susceptible to the antibiotic the patient is receiving. |
| De-escalation | Narrowing or stopping empiric antibiotic therapy once culture and susceptibility results are known. |
| Days of therapy | The number of days a patient receives a given antibiotic, counted once per agent per day, used to measure antibiotic use. |
| IV-to-oral switch | Moving a patient from intravenous to oral antibiotic therapy when they meet your program's criteria. |
| Antibiotic time-out | A planned review of a course of antibiotics at a point set by your policy. |
| Restricted agent | An antibiotic on your formulary that needs approval from the stewardship program before use. |
| Cumulative antibiogram | A summary of susceptibility results for common organisms over a period, published by microbiology and pharmacy. |
| NHSN AUR Module | The CDC National Healthcare Safety Network module for reporting antimicrobial use and resistance. |
| Flag | A prompt raised by a review rule that puts a patient in the review queue, with the reason. |
| Intervention | A recommendation made to a prescriber and recorded with the response and reason. |
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