Premier : Statement on the President’s National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria.
March 30, 2015 at 03:36 pm EDT
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Premier, Inc.
By Blair Childs, Premier senior vice president of Public Affairs
Members of the Premier alliance stand ready to support and implement recommendations from the President's National Action Plan for Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria.
Treating infections can be exceedingly complex and, for many reasons, clinicians sometimes use multiple antibiotics to treat the same infection. This practice can contribute to antimicrobial resistance, put patient safety at risk and increase costs. In fact, according to our own, independent research conducted with the Centers for Disease Control, we found that 78 percent of hospitals used unnecessary and duplicative antibiotics, which directly led to an estimated $163 million in excess costs.
We know that antimicrobial stewardship programs and electronic surveillance of antibiotic use are two of the best strategies we have to help prevent overuse of antibiotics. We hope this coordinated national effort will help to enhance the antimicrobial stewardship initiatives that the majority of U.S. hospitals already have in place today.
By Blair Childs, Premier senior vice president of Public Affairs
Premier, Inc. is a healthcare improvement company uniting an alliance of approximately 4,350 United States hospitals and health systems and approximately 300,000 other providers and organizations. It operates through two segments: Supply Chain Services and Performance Services. The Supply Chain Services segment includes the Companyâs group purchasing organizations (GPO), supply chain co-management, purchased services, and direct sourcing activities. The Performance Services segment consists of three sub-brands, which include PINC AI, the Companyâs technology and services platform; Contigo Health, the Companyâs direct-to-employer business; and Remitra, the Companyâs digital invoicing and payables business. It delivers technology-enabled platform that offers critical supply chain services, clinical, financial, operational and value-based care software as a service (SaaS) as well as clinical and enterprise analytics licenses, consulting services, and third-party administrator services.
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