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Register for Third and Fourth Sepsis Core Elements Webinars with Free CE*

In October, CDC’s Project Firstline began a five-part webinar series for healthcare professionals in collaboration with the American Medical Association to introduce the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements, a framework to help U.S. hospitals implement, monitor, and optimize institutional sepsis programs and sepsis outcomes. Each year, about 1.7 million adults in America develop sepsis, which is why it's so important to take steps to reduce your patients' risk of sepsis.

The Sepsis Core Elements complement existing sepsis guidelines and help facilitate implementation of guideline-recommended care practices at a wide variety of hospitals and healthcare systems in the United States. Action, Nov. 2: The third webinar is coming up on November 2 at 1 p.m. ET and will dive into how to implement effective structures and processes to improve sepsis identification, management, and recovery. Tracking and Reporting, Nov. 16: A fourth webinar is scheduled for November 16 at 1 p.m. ET and will discuss tracking and reporting. Experts will discuss how to measure sepsis epidemiology, management, and outcomes to assess the impact of sepsis initiatives and progress toward program goals. They will also offer guidance on how to provide information on sepsis management and outcomes to relevant partners. During each one-hour webinar, sepsis subject matter experts will provide an overview of the Hospital Sepsis Program Core Elements, and partners will share real-life examples, strategies, and best practices about how they have successfully implemented specific Sepsis Core Elements at their organization. Each webinar topic is independent, and all webinars will be recorded. Free Continuing Education (CE)* will be offered upon successful completion of a post-test. A final webinar will be held on December 7 at 1 p.m. ET and will discuss education.

Register today, view the full schedule of upcoming events, and share with your network:  https://bit.ly/CDCSepsisWebinars. If you missed webinar one or two, you can still watch the recording and obtain CE. To learn more about sepsis and how to prevent infections, visit www.cdc.gov/sepsis. *CE for this series is pending.

	HCPs: Register for CDC’s #Sepsis Core Elements webinar series with free CE* in partnership with @AmerMedicalAssn and @CDC_Firstline covering Action on 11/2 1pm ET & Tracking and Reporting on 11/16 1pm ET: https://bit.ly/CDCSepsisWebinars #SAM2023 *pending

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CDC PLACES Newsletter

October 24, 2023

PLACES provides model-based, population-level analysis and community estimates of health measures for all counties, incorporated and census-designated places, census tracts, and ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) across the United States. Learn more about PLACES.

Technical Tip

The AGOL service and web maps are updated for each PLACES release. For those using maps saved from previous releases, the year in the pop-ups and the classification scheme may not automatically update. Users should check their saved maps to ensure all aspects of their map are up to date.

New PLACES Disability Measures

Model-based county-level prevalence estimates of any disability by cluster-outlier analysis

	Seven new disability measures were added as part of the July 2023 PLACES release! This included 6 disability types (hearing, vision, cognition, mobility, self-care, and independent living) and any disability. Learn more in new article that highlights the new disability measures and used cluster-outlier spatial statistical methods to identify clustered counties.

Recent PLACES Data Highlighted in Publications Two recent articles highlighted PLACES county-level estimates of short sleep duration and lifetime diagnosis of depression.

Model-based county-level prevalence estimates of short sleep duration	Model-based age-standardized county-level prevalence estimates of a lifetime diagnosis of depression

November is COPD Awareness Month Find Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) related estimates in the PLACES Interactive Map and Data Portal. Visit CDC’s COPD webpage and NIH’s Learn More Breathe Better® webpage for more resources. A recent article demonstrated how COPD prevalence estimates from PLACES and social vulnerability measures from the CDC/ATSDR Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) can be jointly examined to help inform local health planning.

PLACES in Practice How is your team using PLACES data? Please share your stories and experience with us by emailing PLACES@cdc.gov. You can also send questions to this mailbox.  Click here to email the PLACES team!

More Information

PLACES Data Portal	FAQs	PLACES Interactive Map	Help section

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Get ready for U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week!

Help spread the word and find ways to participate.

November 18 Kicks Off U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) 2023 Improve Antibiotic Use, Improve Health Equity

Kick off U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (USAAW) with CDC on Saturday, November 18! Every year, CDC recognizes USAAW to raise awareness and share information on the importance of improving antibiotic and antifungal use. Any time antibiotics or antifungals are used—in people, animals, or plants—they can cause side effects and contribute to antimicrobial resistance (AR). The USAAW observance is aligned with World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week (WAAW) during the same week. This year, CDC is focusing on the connection between appropriate antibiotic and antifungal prescribing and use and health equity. Health equity means everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Health inequities resulting from less-than-optimal antibiotic or antifungal prescribing practices may impact health outcomes, and result in an increase in antimicrobial resistance or adverse events in some populations. Join CDC November 18-24 as we recognize the importance of improving antibiotic and antifungal prescribing and use, improving health equity, and slowing the spread of antimicrobial resistance. Learn how you can take action this week and the rest of the year.

5 ways to join USAAW activities November 18–24

1. Use and share CDC’s U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week 2023 Partner Toolkit, which includes key messages and social media graphics. Check out CDC’s Be Antibiotics Aware Partner Toolkit for antibiotic stewardship resources for human health. 2. Jump into social media chats on X (formally Twitter): November 14, 8-9 p.m. EST: The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America with @CDC_AR, Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists, and the American College of Clinical Pharmacy Infectious Diseases Practice and Research Network are hosting a live chat on antibiotic prescribing equity. Use #ABXRxEquity and #USAAW23 to join the conversation. November 16, 10-11 a.m. EST: Join @CDC_AR in reposting messages about improving antibiotic and antifungal use and reducing the spread antimicrobial resistance during a Global X Storm. Join the conversation using #WAAW23Xstorm. November 18-24, daily: Help spread the word with family, friends, and colleagues so they can also get involved. Follow @CDC_AR and repost throughout the week using #AntimicrobialResistance, #USAAW23, and #WAAW. 3. Go Purple for AR to show your support for improving the use of antibiotics and antifungals. You can: Sign up to receive a toolkit for Go Purple for USAAW to help get members of your network involved. Wear purple and post pictures to social media encouraging your followers to improve antibiotic and antifungal use. Light up buildings and landmarks in purple for the week. Bring purple to your online presence: Share Go Purple and USAAW messages to your organization’s website, wear purple when on camera during online meetings and share why you are wearing purple. Share pictures on your social media, tagging #GoPurpleforUSAAW, #AntimicrobialResistance or #USAAW23.

4. Mark your calendar for upcoming webinars:  November 14, 2-3 p.m. EST: Urgent Care Association webinar on common myths and new successes in urgent care antibiotic stewardship. November 14, 3-4 p.m. EST: CDC and Federal Office of Rural Health Policy webinar on the National Healthcare Safety Network Antimicrobial Use Option and using data for action in critical access hospitals. 5. Check out the latest CDC resources on antibiotic and antifungal use, antimicrobial resistance, and health equity across One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Antibiotic Prescribing and Use Be Antibiotics Aware Partner Toolkit Antimicrobial Resistance and Health Equity AMR Exchange: Experts Discuss Reducing Health Disparities by Improving Antibiotic Use CDC Health Equity Page International Infection Control Branch

Check out CDC’s USAAW Partner Toolkit and visit CDC’s USAAW webpage to learn other ways to participate during the week.

	Join U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week Nov. 18-24 & spread the word about the importance of improving #antibiotic & #antifungal use, improving health equity, and combating #AntimicrobialResistance. Download CDC’s Partner Toolkit for ways to share: https://bit.ly/3ZCDi4k #USAAW23

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New Blog: Ethiopian Hospitals Use Infection Prevention and Control Practices to Reduce AR Infections

As part of CDC’s Global Action in Healthcare Network, Ethiopian hospitals work to improve infection prevention and control practices to reduce AR infections.

Ethiopian Hospitals Use Infection Prevention and Control Practices to Combat AR

Two hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, are demonstrating that even with limited resources, commitment to infection prevention and control (IPC) practices makes combating antimicrobial resistance (AR) possible. As part of CDC’s Global Action in Healthcare Network, the Addis Ababa hospitals are working in partnership with CDC, the Ethiopian Public Health Institute, and The Ohio State University to combat AR. An important part of their strategy includes providing trainings to healthcare workers on IPC practices such as proper hand hygiene and environmental cleaning protocols. Local IPC officers train staff and also provide routine monitoring and feedback on IPC practices. These efforts are paying off. Tracked performance rates over time show improvement in IPC practices. For example, at one facility’s neonatal intensive care unit, within seven months, hand hygiene performance increased 30% and environmental cleaning performance increased 200%. This unit has also seen reduced infection rates in their newborn patients. Read the latest Safe Healthcare Blog for more details about this CDC-supported collaboration to prevent and control antimicrobial-resistant threats.

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