Antibiotic Stewardship Program | UC Davis Health

Antibiotic Stewardship Program

Combating Antimicrobial Resistance

Dedicated to assisting and educating providers with antimicrobial decisions.

Pharmacy staff at work.

Our team is dedicated to assisting and educating providers with antimicrobial decision making so that antimicrobials can be used in a way that maximizes benefit, minimizes risks to individual and public health, and provides the greatest value for our healthcare dollar.

Antibiograms

Antibiograms use local resistance data to help guide empiric antibiotic selection. Their use can minimize insufficient coverage for organisms like MRSA while also helping avoid unnecessarily broad coverage for less frequently resistant organisms like E coli.

  • Antibiotic utilization

    Antibiotic use is regularly measured and compared to other facilities nationwide, similar in size and acuity to UC Davis. These numbers are reported as a standardized ratio on a hospital-wide and unit-wide basis. Viewing is available only via the intranet and requires a Tableau username and password. 

    Antibiotic utilization (internal only)
  • Infection prevention

    UC Davis Health provides guidance on appropriate isolation practices, reportable diseases, and other important infection control topics.

    Infection prevention (internal only)
Honors
  • Centers of Excellence

    UC Davis Antibiotic Stewardship Program has been honored as a Center of Excellence (CoE) by the Infectious Disease Society of America, one of just 23 institutions to most recently receive the honor.

    Read more about the CoE designation
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Honor Roll

    In 2021 UC Davis Antibiotic Stewardship Program was awarded gold status by the California Department of Public Health's Healthcare-Associated Infections Program.

    Read more about the Honor Roll designation