Mid Year Update - Book
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CLINICAL UPDATE<br />
Pharmacy and Therapeutics Council<br />
‒ 13 drug classes reviewed<br />
‒ 11 policies and procedures reviewed and approved<br />
‒ 16 monographs reviewed<br />
‒ 4 guidelines approved<br />
Antimicrobial Stewardship<br />
‒ Expanded deployment of MedMined to reduce North<br />
Texas sites antibiotic overuse and encourage deescalation<br />
in August 2016<br />
‒ Antimicrobial stewardship mobile platform application<br />
(Dorsata) launched in June 2016<br />
‒ Approved 6 guidelines and 2 policies/protocols.<br />
‒ Top 50 abx spend decreased by 4.9%.<br />
‒ Initiated Outpatient Stewardship Committee – first<br />
meeting was in Dec 2016<br />
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