Reporting

How does reporting work?

AZ-ASCEND is designed as a two-pronged protocol to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescribing. During clinical staff training, Infection Preventionists or other facility leadership will collect data on facility-wide metrics including C. Difficile orders, ESBL producing isolates, and resident-specific features including culture results, antibiotics issued, and clinical symptoms. 

Surveillance definitions are applied to evaluate whether prescribed antibiotics meet the formal criteria for urinary or respiratory infections. Facility-wide and resident level data including a sum of resident days, antibiotic orders, antibiotic days of therapy, antibiotics prescribed prior to a lab result, urine C&S and respiratory x-rays are aggregated into tables. These data are used to populate reports that are distributed back to staff to provide feedback on prescribing trends.

The page includes three pre-built templates that can be used by staff to provide a data feedback loop at 1) baseline, 2) to facility leadership, and 3) on a quarterly basis for all staff. Reports are available as editable word documents or as programmable templates that can be used to autogenerate reports following data collection and aggregation.