Education Materials

• For Clinicians
• For Your Patients
• Additional Resources

For Clinicians

WARN Guidelines for Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care The Guidelines for Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care brochure was delivered in August of 2004. Since then Telithromycin is no longer recommended for sinusitis and CA pneumonia. View revised PDF

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For Your Patients

	Parent Handouts These handouts covering sore throat, cold, ear infection and cough illness/bronchitis are what every parent has been looking for! Easily copied, these handouts clearly state if an antibiotic is needed, signs of illness, what to do at home, and when to call a doctor. Your Child's Ear Infection (PDF) Your Child's Cold (PDF) Your Child's Sore Throat (PDF) Your Child's Bronchitis/Cough (PDF)
	Adult Handouts Adult Handouts have been designed to compliment our Parent Handouts. These have been created for the adult patient with either a cold, sore throat or cough/bronchitis. Feel free to make photocopies for office use. Your Cold (PDF) Your Sore Throat (PDF) Your Cough/Bronchitis (PDF) Your Cold (Spanish version PDF) Your Sore Throat (Spanish version PDF) Your Cough/Bronchitis (Spanish version PDF)
	Childcare Professional Letter This tool was designed by CDC to help clinicians. The letter is designed as a useful tool for clinicians to explain to child care professionals that a child has a viral illness, which cannot be treated with antibiotics. Download a PDF of Childcare Professional Letter
	Coloring Sheets This fun 4-panel coloring sheet features Annie Biotic and Moxi Cillin telling kids about when antibiotics do and do not work and the importance of washing their hands. Download a PDF of Coloring Sheets

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Additional Resources

APIC Brochures
The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) offers the following PDF brochures for healthcare professionals and consumers:

• Hand Hygiene for Healthcare Workers
• Hand Hygiene for Consumers
• Multiple-Drug Resistant Bacteria Prevention and Control
• Antibiotic Safety

CDC - 2006-07 Flu Season Patient and Provider Education Materials - also includes fact sheets in other languages.

CDC Adult Upper Respiratory Illness Guidelines
On the basis of available antiviral testing results, CDC is providing an interim recommendation that neither amantadine nor rimantadine be used for the treatment or prophylaxis of influenza A in the United States for the remainder of the 2005–06 influenza season. The Acute Cough Illness (Acute Bronchitis) sheet will be updated to reflect the new guidelines and will be available shortly.

View the CDC Health Alert press release.

• Nonspecific Upper Respiratory Tract Infection
• Acute Pharyngitis in Adults
• Acute Bacterial Rhinosinusitis
• Acute Cough Illness (Acute Bronchitis) - Removed for updating

CDC provides a Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases that includes a chapter about Pneumococcal Disease. (PDF)

CDC offers materials to promote hand hygiene in your healthcare facility as well as the downloadable Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings-2002.

Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work - CDC National Campaign

Cover Your Cough Materials
The Minnesota Department of Health offers posters, brochures, and other materials that you can use in your health care facility to help teach people to cover their cough.

Germ Stopper
Germ Stopper on the CDC site offers tips to stop the spread of germs at home, work and school, as well as downloadable posters for adults, youth, schools and child care centers.

Shadow Epidemic: The Growing Menace of Drug Resistance
2005 GAARD Report from APUA (PDF)

Stop! Help Protect Our Patients/Residents Posters
The Minnesota Department of Health has created two small posters that can be posted in facilities asking ill people not to visit. The two posters are available for download in five languages.

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