Complimentary MDRO Toolkit

Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) prevention and control is one of the most complex management issues that health care executives face. The clinical and financial burden to patients and health care providers is staggering. According to Barbara Soule, JCR Practice Leader, Infection Prevention and Control Services, “Patients who are infected with MDROs often have an increased risk of prolonged illness and mortality. The cost of care for these patients can be more than double as compared to those without MDRO infection.”

Joint Commission Resources (JCR), supported in part by funding from Ortho McNeil, Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is privileged to announce the release of What Every Health Care Executive Should Know: The Cost of Antibiotic Resistance, an innovative, evidence-based, and practical collection of senior leadership resources, including: • Comprehensive background information, including an in-depth analysis and summary of current clinical and financial evidence and research, • Clinical and financial assessment, monitoring, and analysis tools that can immediately be adopted and used in practice by health care organizations, • Educational presentations to engage leaders, physicians, and staff in understanding the criticality of MDRO prevention and control in their own organizations, and  • Best practices, successful case studies, and interventions for sustainable improvement in MDRO prevention and control, such as the implementation of effective antibiotic stewardship and transmission control programs.

What Every Health Care Executive Should Know: The Cost of Antibiotic Resistance  was created by leading clinical experts, including Barbara Soule, RN, MPA, CIC, JCR Practice Leader, Infection Prevention and Control Services and Stephen Weber, MD, MS, Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases and Medical Director Infection Control and Clinical Quality University of Chicago Medical Center and JCR Infection Prevention Consultant, with contributions from other recognized medical authorities and best practice hospitals.

Joint Commission Resources is pleased to provide this invaluable resource at no charge to health care organizations, executives, and clinicians around the world.  To request a complimentary copy of What Every Health Care Executive Should Know: The Cost of Antibiotic Resistance, or learn about additional JCR infection prevention resources and services, please select from the Learn More list on the above right section of this page.

This manual is presented to your institution as an informational tool only. JCR is solely responsible for the development and contents of this tool. You are solely responsible for any decision to use the manual as a guideline for assisting your institutions in establishing safe infection control practices. Obviously, it is only a guideline and you would have to make the decision as to whether it needs to be tailored to fit the practices and settings at your individual institution. JCR’s production of this manual for Ortho-McNeil, Inc. is on a non-exclusive basis, and is not an endorsement of that company or its products, or a statement that its expertise or products are superior to those of other comparable companies. JCR will make available all the subject matter contained in the Infection Prevention and Control Toolkit and Workshops to any other party interested in furthering JCR’s efforts to help improve quality and safety.