Improving antibiotic initiation and duration in Ontario long-term care

Please join us …

When: Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 12–1 p.m.

Where: Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86044633057, Meeting ID: 860 4463 3057. Meeting password: 112233

Who: Nick Daneman, MD, MSc; Clinician Scientist, Division Head, Infectious Diseases, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; Senior Scientist, ICES

Topic: Improving antibiotic initiation and duration in Ontario long-term care

Learning objectives

1. Understand some of the challenges in optimizing antimicrobials in long-term care.
2. Review a series of Ontario population-wide studies documenting variability in antibiotic initiation and duration in long-term care.
3. Learn about a recently completed Ontario wide intervention to improve antibiotic prescribing in long-term care.

Nick Daneman