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Goal One Summary
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 Goal
1 - Expand the partnership approach of existing and
new antibiotic resistance projects.
The first conference plenary session was entitled Partnership
and was moderated by Howard A. Kahn, CEO, LA Care Health
Plan. Panel members included Jane Harper, Minnesota
Department of Health, Fred Fedorowicz, Blue Cross/Blue
Shield, Michigan, Donita Stromgren, California Childcare
Resource and Referral Network and Mike Negrete, PharmD,
California Pharmacists Association.
The panel provided participants with a deeper understanding
of possibilities for involvement and partnership in
an appropriate antibiotic use campaign. Each speaker
offered concrete examples of how their partnership
has paid off in their own state and the interests
their type of organizations can have in getting involved
in these types of campaigns. The panel members provided
examples of the roles childcare organizations, health
plans, state health departments
and pharmacists associations can play in statewide
campaigns and shared examples of the resources each
can provide to reach consumers, patients and healthcare
providers.
A breakout session entitled Collaboration
was offered to participants. Breakout session participants
were provided a framework to develop a multisectoral
coalition in their state, including approaches to
working with diverse communities. Participants designed
an action plan to take back to their state that identified
ways to strengthen their partnerships and their overall
project.
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Goal Two Summary
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 Goal
2 - Increase the level of interest about the issue of
antibiotic resistance and increase the commitment to
take action.
AWARE Steering Committee Chair and Dean, UC Davis School
of Medicine Joseph Silva, MD kicked of the conference
providing a history of antibiotic resistance. Rich Besser,
MD, Medical Director, CDC National Campaign for Appropriate
Antibiotic Use in the Community provided an overview
of the problem of antimicrobial resistance today, the
relationship between pneumococcal resistance and antibiotic
use, national activities promoting appropriate antibiotic
use in the community and trends in antibiotic prescribing.
On Sunday morning, the conference closed with regional
breakout sessions facilitated by CDC staff. In these
breakout sessions, state representatives discussed
the mechanism we already have in place for ongoing
communications and what needs to be put in place to
strengthen this, areas of interest that might identify
regional priorities for future action, and how can
we share our resources, expertise, tools within the
region and nationally when something really good is
available. Regional networks are now in place under
the leadership of the CDC to foster ongoing communication
on a more local level that can allow for a greater
sharing of resources.
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Goal
Three Summary
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Goal 3 - Increase
the involvement of physician, health provider and consumer
organizations in efforts to increase appropriate antibiotic
use.
With the support of scholarships made possible through
support from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation the
CMA Foundation was able to have representation from
across the country from physician, health provider and
consumer organizations. New collaborations are beginning
in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Ohio, and North
Carolina. In addition, several existing state projects
expanded their partnerships, including Colorado, Georgia,
Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, Washington and Wisconsin.
The AMA will be working with the CMA Foundation to
develop a clinical practice and collaboration tool
kit that can be utilized by state and local medical
associations to become involved partners in appropriate
antibiotic use campaigns across the nation. The AMA
is taking the lead in developing the tool kit, basing
many of the materials on the resources developed through
the CMA Foundation's AWARE Project. Materials will
be disseminated to state medical associations as well
as posted on the AMA website. Directly following the
conference, the AMA challenged state medical associations
to follow the efforts of the CMA Foundation and become
active partners in efforts to address antibiotic resistance
in their states and communities in
AM News -
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click to view article).
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