TREAT-Essential

A fully integrated antimicrobial stewardship tool helping clinicians to select rational antimicrobial therapy at point of care.

TREAT-Essential aims to improves clinical outcomes of patients with infections while preserving the effectiveness of antibiotics for future generations. By using advanced decision support, the system can be tuned to reduce consumption of antibiotics and contribute to a rational antibiotic policy — a key goal of antibiotic stewardship. TREAT-Essential takes into account infection-relevant information from the electronic health record and other clinical information systems in order to create consistency, assuring quality in the management of patients with infection and in the appropriate usage of antibiotics. It gives an opportunity to improve treatment and follow up on patients with infections, and supports the infectious disease specialists and management to control and monitor clinical performance. Installing TREAT-Essential supplies invaluable quality assurance tools to the experts at the hospital. It gives the antimicrobial stewardship team the opportunity to review and control guideline compliance, educate and distribute the most recent knowledge. TREAT-Essential consists of a set of modules grouped according to three main areas of focus: quality assurance, decision support, and statistics and surveillance.