Jessica Blavignac

[vnault00 @vnault00]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista @JessBlavignac @Firstline A2. @ASP_Chat Real-time color coded cumulative antibiograms that you can filter at will. This is how we can support prescriber for an optimal empirical treatment. #lumed #biomerieux

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @biomerieux @andreaprinzi @biochemista @Kat9Woj @IDstewardship @BRxAD Thank you @ASP_Chat

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista There are some forward thinking IT & data analytical tools such as #APSS and #ZINC that provide ASP teams with real time insight, adapted to their own institution, facilitating diagnostic stewardship and ensuring optimal antimicrobial prescribing. #LUMED @vnault00 #ASPChat

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista Incorporating real-time decision support at time of result reporting ensures the right interpretation, leading to the right antimicrobial prescribed from the start, rather than correcting & rectifying suboptimal antimicrobial use after treatment has reached the patient. #ASPChat

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista In their series on policy issues regarding AMS and the spread of AMR, CIDRAP updates on ID diagnostic and the role of rapid molecular testing. #ASPChat #IDtwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista @MadelineBelk @blandman19 @mmPharmD @KisgenUF >6600 GPs, top 30% for antibiotic prescribers in their region, were sent carefully-designed letters from Australia CMO. Comparison w/ their practice was most successful behavior modifier, reducing prescription rates by 12.3% on average over 6 months. #ASPChat #IDtwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista @MadelineBelk @blandman19 @mmPharmD @KisgenUF This behavioral economics approach to stewardship helped address the unnecessary over-prescription of antibiotics. They estimated that 208,510 fewer prescriptions would be issued, by simply providing GPs with a personal comparison to their regional peers. #ASPChat #IDtwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista @MadelineBelk @blandman19 @mmPharmD @KisgenUF WHO highlighted an interesting but perhaps little provocative approach undertaken by the Australian Department of Health and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet: the BIT study. #ASPChat #IDtwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@biochemista @ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @KyleDHueth @TristanTimbrook Great example @Andreaprinzi @kylehueth @tristantimbrook! Careful consideration of clinical signs & symptoms w/ knowledge of local epidemiology are essential for diagnostic stewardship. Multidisciplinary teams should cooperate to promote diagnostic stewardship. #ASPChat #IDTwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista Diagnostic stewardship is complementary to AMS: implying ordering the right tests, for the right patient, at the right time; judicious use of rapid diagnostics for proper antibiotic therapy initiation & avoiding excessive use of broad-spectrum antibiotics. #ASPChat #IDTwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista @Firstline The Ontario Hospital Antibiogram is part of the Ontario ASP Comparison Tool, which is an online, publicly available interactive tool that summarizes structural and strategic components of participating hospital ASPs across the region: https://t.co/PFHmQwcwNd. #ASPChat #IDTwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista @Firstline This antibiogram serves as benchmark for current state of AMR provincially & across health regions.
It was developed as voluntary online survey of ASPs in acute care, inpatient rehabilitation, and complex continuing care developed by the #ASP team at #PHO. #ASPChat #IDTwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista @Firstline @BRxAD Perhaps you can add your thoughts:
#Antibiogram development and deployment is pivotal to fight #AMR. PHO published that integrating hospital AMR tracking and reporting as part of a larger voluntary provincial #ASP initiative is a feasible approach to capturing AMR data.

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista The same report also states that by 2050, #antimicrobialresistance rates are likely to rise to 40% which could result in the loss of 15 Canadian lives daily and $396 billion in gross domestic product. #ASPChat #IDTwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista ... and from a quantitative model developed for the Council of Canadian Academies, a panel of experts found that in Canada, 26% of infections are resistant to the drugs generally used to treat them. #ASPChat #IDTwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @IDstewardship @BRxAD @andreaprinzi @biochemista According to #PHAC, it is estimated that more than 5,400 Canadians die every year from infections caused by bacteria that have become resistant to antibiotics… #ASPChat #IDTwitter

[Jessica Blavignac @JessBlavignac]

@ASP_Chat @biomerieux @Kat9Woj @andreaprinzi @biochemista @IDstewardship @BRxAD @KisgenUF @mmPharmD @SIDPharm @accpinfdprn @CLSI_LabNews @EB_Hirsch Good evening #ASPChat community! My name is Jessica Blavignac. I worked 20 years in the pharmaceutical industry. In recent years I've joined infectious disease #diagnostics company, #bioMerieux Canada. My background is in biochemistry & biomedical medicine.

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👀 Here is a sneak peek at the questions for the #ASPchat tonight.

[bioMérieux @biomerieux]

Don't miss the next #ASPchat on October 26th! 👇