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Figure 1. Clostridioides difficile is a bacterium that causes an infection of the large intestine (colon).
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Antibiotic Stewardship and C. Difficile Infection

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The need for robust stewardship practices gains prominence in protecting patients from unnecessary antibiotic use, improving outcomes, and curbing the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, especially Clostridioides difficile.

AGD Subject Code: 010

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

After reading this course, the participant should be able to:

  1. Define antibiotic stewardship.
  2. Discuss the risks of Clostridioides difficile infection.
  3. Identify treatments for C. difficile.

This course was published in the September 2023 issue and expires September 2026. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose. This 2 credit hour self-study activity is electronically mediated.


Belmont Business Media is an ADA CERP-recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ada.org/cerp. Belmont Business Media Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. 7/1/2023 to 6/30/2026. Provider ID 317924
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Leila H. Liberman, RDH, EdD, serves as a clinical dental hygienist and senior staff in the advanced education in general dentistry program at the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System in Temple. She can be reached at leila.liberman@va.gov.


Trina L. Hutto, RDH, MS, is a doctoral candidate at Northcentral University in San Diego, where she is pursuing her EdD. She is an instructor in the Department of Undergraduate Health Professions dental hygiene program at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. She can be reached at phutto@augusta.edu.


Angela Dudley, RDH, MA, CHES, served as the patient care coordinator in advanced specialty education at the University Maryland School of Dentistry for more than 20 years. She also taught at Howard University, University of Maryland, and University of South Dakota. Now retired, Dudley has extensive experience in clinical dental hygiene as well as teaching. She became a certified health education specialist in 1995.


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