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Area of Science:

  • Medical Microbiology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Healthcare Epidemiology

Background:

  • Nursing homes (NHs) face challenges in generating facility-specific urinary antibiograms due to low numbers of bacterial isolates.
  • Standard Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) methods are often insufficient for NH settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate an approach for creating facility-specific urinary antibiograms in NHs, addressing the issue of limited isolate recovery.
  • To compare the performance of standard CLSI antibiogram models with various Weighted-Incidence Syndromic Antibiogram (WISCA) models.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective analysis of 5097 urine culture isolates from 59 NHs across five states (2020-2021).
  • Comparison of a CLSI standard antibiogram model against four WISCA models with differing formatting rules.
  • Evaluation of the ability to produce facility-specific antibiograms (≥30 isolates) and impact on susceptibility predictions.

Main Results:

  • Only one NH could generate a CLSI antibiogram for common Gram-negative isolates using one year of data.
  • WISCA models significantly increased antibiogram generation rates (36% to 85%) when using two years of data and all Gram-negative isolates.
  • Changes in predicted antibiotic activity (e.g., ampicillin-sulbactam, cefazolin) were observed when using all Gram-negative isolates versus the top three pathogens.

Conclusions:

  • Weighted-Incidence Syndromic Antibiogram (WISCA) models are superior to CLSI standards for NHs with low isolate counts.
  • Utilizing two years of urinary culture data encompassing all Gram-negative isolates maximizes the number of NHs capable of generating valid facility-specific antibiograms.