Creation of State Antibiogram and Subsequent Launch of Public Health-Coordinated Antibiotic Stewardship in New Hampshire: Small State, Big Collaboration.

Background: An antibiogram is a summary of antibiotic susceptibility patterns for selected bacterial pathogens and antibiotics. The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) sought to create an annual state antibiogram to monitor statewide antibiotic resistance trends, guide appropriate empiric antibiotic prescribing, and inform future statewide antibiotic stewardship.

Methods: Through legislative authority, DPHS required hospital laboratories to report antibiogram data annually.