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Perceptions, attitudes, and practices of a Belgian teaching hospital's physicians, pharmacists, and nurses regarding antibiotic use and resistance: survey towards targeted actions for Antimicrobial Stewardship

Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2023
Objectives This study aimed to identify barriers to the proper use of antibiotics by healthcare professionals and to help the hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship develop suitable actions for the staff.
Caroline Briquet, Youssra Khaouch, Jean Cyr Yombi   +2 more
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Antimicrobial stewardship practices in Virginia [PDF]

, 2017
The Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the President\u27s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recognize the need to combat antimicrobial resistance through the promotion of ...
Bucheit, John, Collins, Rebeccah, Lee, Kimberly B., Ramirez, Jesus Aaron, Sanogo, Kakotan, Stevens, Michael P.   +5 more
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes in Community Healthcare Organisations in England: A Cross-Sectional Survey to Assess Implementation of Programmes and National Toolkits [PDF]

, 2018
Objective: The aim of this study was to assess antimicrobial stewardship activities in Community Healthcare Organisations (CHOs) with focus on the implementation of the two national antimicrobial stewardship toolkits, TARGET (Treat Antibiotics ...
Ahmad, Raheelah, Akpan, Mary, Ashiru-Oredope, Diane, Doble, Anne, Hansraj, Sejal, Hopkins, Susan, Shebl, Nada   +6 more
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Early recognition and response to increases in surgical site infections using optimised statistical process control charts—The early 2RIS trial: A multicentre stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial

EClinicalMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: Traditional approaches for surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance have deficiencies that delay detection of SSI outbreaks and other clinically important increases in SSI rates.
Arthur W. Baker, Iulian Ilieş, James C. Benneyan, Yuliya Lokhnygina, Katherine R. Foy, Sarah S. Lewis, Brittain Wood, Esther Baker, Linda Crane, Kathryn L. Crawford, Andrea L. Cromer, Polly Padgette, Linda Roach, Linda Adcock, Nicole Nehls, Joseph Salem, Dale Bratzler, E. Patchen Dellinger, Linda R. Greene, Susan S. Huang, Christopher R. Mantyh, Deverick J. Anderson   +21 more
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An Interprofessional Curriculum on Antimicrobial Stewardship Improves Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Appropriate Antimicrobial Use and Collaboration. [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundInappropriate antimicrobial use can threaten patient safety and is the focus of collaborative physician and pharmacist antimicrobial stewardship teams.
Chin-Hong, Peter V, Kim, Lisa, MacDougall, Conan, Nanamori, Mari, Schwartz, Brian S, Shekarchian, Sharmin   +5 more
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An evaluation of antimicrobial stewardship in community pharmacy [PDF]

, 2015
This study investigated several aspects of antimicrobial stewardship by gathering information from community pharmacists and members of the public. The aim was to identify how community pharmacists implement antimicrobial stewardship guidelines and ...
Hancock, Laura Jade, Mellor, Callan
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Development and application of an antibiotic spectrum index for benchmarking antibiotic selection patterns across hospitals [PDF]

, 2017
Standard metrics for antimicrobial use consider volume but not spectrum of antimicrobial prescribing. We developed an antibiotic spectrum index (ASI) to classify commonly used antibiotics based on activity against important pathogens.
Gerber, Jeffrey S, Hersh, Adam L, Kronman, Matthew P, Metjian, Talene A, Newland, Jason G, Ross, Rachael K   +5 more
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2013
ABSTRACT The development of antimicrobial agents represents one of the most significant achievements in medicine during the past century. However, the emergence of antimicrobial resistance combined with the downturn in the development of new antimicrobial agents in the pharmaceutical industry poses unanticipated challenges in the effective ...
Kimberly D, Leuthner, Gary V, Doern
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Influence of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccinations on cluster events among patients and staff in a tertiary-care hospital in Germany

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2022
In total, 20 severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) clusters were analyzed in a tertiary-care hospital from the beginning of the pandemic until July 2021. After the second pandemic wave, the number of clusters decreased with increasing
Michael Eisenmann, Vera Rauschenberger, Kerstin Knies, Gerhard Schwarzmann, Ulrich Vogel, Manuel Krone   +5 more
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Antimicrobial Stewardship from Policy to Practice: Experiences from UK Antimicrobial Pharmacists [PDF]

, 2015
Antimicrobial stewardship in the UK has evolved dramatically in the last 15 years. Factors driving this include initial central funding for specialist pharmacists and mandatory reductions in healthcare-associated infections (particularly Clostridium ...
A Jepson, AL Chapman, AW Chen, C Curtis, C Dumartin, C Micallef, C Weeks, CC Butler, D Nathwani, F Ansari, GE Bignardi, HJ Wickens, HJ Wickens, HY Wang, J Sneddon, K Hand, K Knox, K Thakkar, L Hitchen, M Gilchrist, MJ Talpaert, MT Baysari, N Cooley, P Howard, P Jumaa, R Kullar, S Patel, SA Simpson, TH Dellit, V Sintchenko   +29 more
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