Providing You with the Resources to Promote Appropriate Antibiotic Use, Improve Patient Outcomes and Prevent Antibiotic Resistance

What's new

Welcome to the Nebraska ASAP website!  A number of tools and templates to facilitate establishment of an institutional antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) has been added to the site (see links below).  Regularly scheduled blog posts will be published to highlight news and studies related to antimicrobial stewardship and antimicrobial use.  Sign-up for free email alerts.

12/2/2019: A new post on the recently revised Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship is now available.  Click here to find out more.

11/21/2019: A post on the current state of antimicrobial stewardship in the U.S. and Nebraska is now published.

11/20/2019: Nebraska DHHS Antibiotic Awareness Week Facebook live discussion (recorded video).

10/11/2019: A blog on the newly finalized Conditions for Participation (CoP) for hospitals and critical access hospitals from the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) as been posted. 

8/6/2019: All videos from the 2019 Nebraska Antimicrobial Stewardship Summit are now posted on the ASAP YouTube channel.  In addition, an educational document on piperacillin-tazobactam extended infusion is now available.

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