Stewardship Assist
For Antimicrobial Stewardship and Quality Improvement Teams
Your guidelines, inside the reference your clinicians already trust.
Not a separate stewardship app. Not an EHR alert at the moment of order. The reference itself — configured for your institution.
✓ Minimal IT involvement required ✓ Launch in weeks, not quarters ✓ Full Sanford Guide content included
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Our Approach
The decision happens here.
So should your guidance.
Other stewardship apps only contain the guidelines your team uploads. When prescribers can't find what they need, they leave the app — and they don't come back. Stewardship Assist embeds your institutional guidance inside the complete Sanford Guide reference, so the answer is always one tap away.
The Model
How it fits together, end to end.
Your content sits alongside Sanford Guide's, flows through an editorial portal your team controls, and reaches prescribers wherever they're reading.
How It Works
Six capabilities your team controls. One reference your prescribers already use.
Everything your stewardship team needs to put your institution's voice inside the reference — with almost no IT involvement and no vendor deployment cycles.
Institutional directory
Your guidelines, interactive algorithms, antibiograms, and pathways — organized into a custom directory accessible from the home screen of every prescriber's app and on the web.
Stewardship alerts
Add formulary restrictions, dosing notes, shortage alerts, or AMS considerations to any specific page in the reference — drug pages and non-drug clinical pages alike. Your content appears first.
Digital antibiograms
Not just a PDF upload. Fully interactive antibiograms with clinical context and links, displayed in the same Spectra of Activity format as Sanford Guide data — and viewable side by side with it. Multi-location, multi-population, fully configurable.
Editorial dashboard
A user-friendly editor tool lets your team make edits without complicated IT involvement. Our PharmD-led team handles the initial content transfer for you — and your team can log in and edit directly any time after. Full version control and modification tracking.
Announcements and notifications
Push messaging or in-app announcements for drug shortages, guideline changes, and time-sensitive clinical communications — delivered to your users on web and mobile.
Self-serve analytics
Pull usage reports your team needs — for leadership, accreditors, and auditors. Filter to institutional content to show guideline adoption, or surface top pages to find new stewardship opportunities.
The Difference
Your guidance, on the exact page the prescriber is reading.
A prescriber searches Meropenem. They see your formulary restriction, your dosing protocol, whatever you want them to see — right there at the top of the page. They can tap over to the standard Sanford Guide content whenever they need it.
Other stewardship platforms distribute guidelines in a separate app. EHR tools fire alerts when orders are submitted. Only Stewardship Assist puts your institution's voice on the specific reference page the clinician is consulting.
Control
Our team imports everything. Your team owns it from there.
Send us your existing guidelines, antibiograms, and protocols in whatever format you have them — PDFs, Word docs, intranet pages, spreadsheets. Our PharmD-led editorial team digitizes, structures, and integrates everything into Stewardship Assist before you go live. From there, edit and publish through a portal we set up — or keep our team in the loop for ongoing updates.
- Launch We import every guideline, antibiogram, and protocol — in whatever format you already have. Your team reviews before going live.
- Speed Publish when you're ready. Changes go live in seconds — not weeks, not the next quarterly release.
- Control Drafts saved and reviewed before publishing. Full modification history visible to every editor.
- Ongoing Your team can edit through the portal, or keep our team in the loop. No vendor required for routine work.
The Evidence
When the answer is one tap away, prescribing changes.
Research shows 90% of medical residents are aware of their institution's antibiogram. Only 44% know how to access it at the moment of prescribing.[1]
The resource exists. The prescriber can't find it.
Independent research at Walter Reed measured what happens when that resource sits inside the reference clinicians already use:
95%
of trainees modified their prescribing practice based on the app.[3]
34→90%
Antibiogram use during prescribing decisions, before and after implementation.[2]
42→90%
Self-reported regular use of the app, before and after implementation and education.[2]
1.Tallman GB, Vilches-Tran RA, Elman MR, et al. Empiric antibiotic prescribing decisions among medical residents: the role of the antibiogram. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018;39(5):578–583.
2.Brooke TR, Pfaeffle HO, Guillory WO, Raiciulescu S, Ressner RA. Making the APPropriate choice: utilization of a smartphone application to optimize antimicrobial decisions among internal medicine trainees. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2022;2(1):e194.
3.Brooke T, Pfaeffle H, Guillory W, Raiciulescu S, Ressner R. Making the APPropriate choice: utilization of a smartphone application to optimize antimicrobial decisions among internal medicine trainees [abstract no. 86]. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2021;8(Suppl 1):S55.
Independent research. Walter Reed National Military Medical Center does not endorse commercial products.
Built for Accreditation
Designed for the standards your stewardship program already follows.
Joint Commission
Stewardship Standards
Provides documented protocols, version control, and demonstrable evidence of guideline adoption and review for accreditation requirements.
CDC
Core Elements
Demonstrates leadership commitment, action through electronic guidelines, tracking and reporting via usage analytics.
IDSA / SHEA
Implementation Guidelines
Aligns with implementation guidelines for antibiotic stewardship by embedding institutional guidance and decision support at the time of consultation.
Usage analytics produce the documentation your stewardship team is already compiling for accreditors — without the compilation work.
Schedule a demo to see how usage analytics support your accreditation documentation →
Why Sanford Guide
The reference your clinicians already trust, and the company that's earned their trust for nearly 60 years.
A geographically distributed editorial board.
Nine editors from independent academic medical centers. Your stewardship program builds on a clinical perspective shaped by many institutions, not one.
Independent and family-owned since 1969.
No association with the pharmaceutical industry, medical device manufacturers, or government entities. Editorial independence is the core of who we are.
The fastest time-to-answer in clinical reference.
Continuous content updates, concise structure, and a search-first interface designed for the moment between question and decision.
Top-rated mobile apps on iOS and Android.
The product clinicians already have on their phones. Stewardship Assist makes that product yours.
Getting Started
Everything your team needs to launch.
Included with every license
- System-wide access to the full Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy content suite
- Onboarding for your stewardship team
- Migration of your existing guidelines and antibiograms
- Ongoing support, training, and self-serve usage analytics
- Continuous Sanford Guide content and feature updates
What launch looks like
Configuration and content migration: weeks, not quarters. No major IT project.
Your guidelines team owns the platform from day one.
Our in-house PharmD-led team handles your initial content import: guidelines, antibiograms, and clinical pathways. Complex clinical pathways become interactive digital tools.
Common Questions
What stewardship teams ask first.
We already distribute our guidelines on the intranet.
Your clinicians aren't going to the intranet at the bedside — they're in Sanford Guide. And the ones who try get stopped by intranet or SharePoint logins, give up, and go back to the reference they already trust. PDF antibiograms are hard to read on a phone, go out of date, and circulate in outdated versions. Stewardship Assist digitizes your antibiogram into the same interactive format as the Sanford Guide Spectra of Activity chart and updates the moment you make a change. And your institutional guidelines appear directly on the relevant reference pages — the prescriber doesn't have to leave the app or remember where the PDF lives. You also get usage data to demonstrate guideline adoption to the Joint Commission and hospital leadership.
We already use a standalone stewardship app.
Standalone stewardship apps are separate from the reference your clinicians use for treatment decisions — two apps, two habits, and guidelines that live apart from the clinical content prescribers are consulting. And because these tools only contain what your team uploads, prescribers who can't find what they need leave the app and don't come back. Stewardship Assist puts your guidelines, antibiograms, and alerts directly inside the Sanford Guide app — the tool your clinicians are already using — alongside the complete reference content. The stewardship alert system, the digital antibiogram in the Spectra of Activity format, the customizable home screen, and the editorial dashboard represent a more developed, purpose-built stewardship platform.
We have EHR stewardship tools already.
EHR stewardship tools fire alerts when orders are submitted — and pharmacists tell us prescribers tend to click straight through them. Stewardship Assist operates earlier in the workflow. It shapes the prescribing decision before the order is placed, by embedding your institutional guidance inside the reference tool your clinicians consult first. These are complementary interventions at different points in the workflow, not redundant ones — and unlike EHR tools, Stewardship Assist requires far less IT involvement and can launch in weeks.
The decision happens in the reference your clinicians already trust.
Schedule a demo to see how your hospital's guidelines, antibiograms, and pathways would appear inside The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy.
Schedule a DemoFull Sanford Guide content included · Launches in weeks, not quarters