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The OASCN Resource Bundle was developed by the Optimizing Antibiotic Stewardship in California NICUs (OASCN) Collaborative in 2021 and 2022, which was led by CPQCC, the RAND Corporation, and The Lundquist Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, and supported by a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (Grant# R18HS26168-01A1).
OASCN began with 31 California NICUs and hosted Learning Sessions open to all NICU clinical staff via Zoom every 2 weeks from early March 2021 through February 2022 (OASCN’s first year) and quarterly thereafter until February 2023. Learning points from the session discussions, as well as links to related literature and session didactic presentations posted on the collaborative’s Box.com share site, were distributed to participating OASCN NICUs through a recap email following each learning session. At the end of OASCN’s first year, the learning points and reference library were compiled into summary documents for collaborative participants.
The OASCN Resource Bundle is organized according to the following topic areas. Each topic area contains the relevant didactics (slides and video), learning points, and references generated during the collaborative.
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Topics
- Antibiotic Resistance
- Antimicrobial Monitoring and Adverse Events
- Bacterial Sepsis Diagnosis/Biomarkers
- “Baseline” Antibiotic Use in NICUs
- Blood Culture Positivity, Timing and Contamination
- Diagnostic Efficiency of Antibiotic Use in CPQCC NICUs
- Early-Onset Sepsis (EOS) Management
- Early-Onset Sepsis (EOS) Impact of Prolonged Antibiotic Use
- Fungal Sepsis Prophylaxis, Diagnosis and Management
- Herpes Simplex Virus
- Infection Prevention and Stewardship
- Neonatal Sepsis Calculator
- Late-Onset & Culture-Negative Sepsis
- Necrotizing Enterocolitis (NEC)
- Neonatal Pneumonia
- Quality Improvement in the NICU
- Stewardship in the NICU
- Stewardship Intervention Data
- Stewardship Data, CPQCC-specific
- Stewardship Principles, Team Building
- Syphilis
- Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
- Using Vignette Methods to Describe Practice Variation, Practice Quality, and Promote Change
