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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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Antimicrobial stewardship

British Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2019
Antimicrobial resistance is a global concern threatening patient safety directly, and through secondary impact on patients undergoing chemotherapy, surgery, transplantation and other areas of care reliant upon effective anti-infective therapy. To address antimicrobial resistance, ongoing programmes of activity in human and animal health, and in ...
Hughes, SJ, Moore, LSP
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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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Early recognition and response to increases in surgical site infections using optimized statistical process control charts—the Early 2RIS Trial: a multicenter cluster randomized controlled trial with stepped wedge design

Trials, 2020
Background Surgical site infections (SSIs) cause significant patient suffering. Surveillance and feedback of SSI rates is an evidence-based strategy to reduce SSIs, but traditional surveillance methods are slow and prone to bias.
Deverick J. Anderson, Iulian Ilieş, Katherine Foy, Nicole Nehls, James C. Benneyan, Yuliya Lokhnygina, Arthur W. Baker   +6 more
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Antimicrobial stewardship in paediatrics [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2016
Antibiotics are among the drugs most commonly prescribed to children in hospitals and communities. Unfortunately, a great number of these prescriptions are unnecessary or inappropriate. Antibiotic abuse and misuse have several negative consequences, including drug-related adverse events, the emergence of multidrug resistant bacterial pathogens, the ...
N. Principi, S. Esposito
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Antimicrobial Stewardship [PDF]

Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2020
Indranil Samanta, Samiran Bandyopadhyay
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A validation study on a standardized assessment algorithm for antimicrobial prescribing appropriateness

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Background: Since 2013, the Australian Hospital National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey (Hospital NAPS) has provided a standardized framework for hospitals to assess the quality of antimicrobial prescribing.
Caroline Chen, Josephine Wen, Courtney Ierano, Jenna Maleki, Tim Spelman, Rodney James, Karin Thursky, Lisa Hall   +7 more
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Knowledge, perspectives and health outcome expectations of antibiotic therapy in hospitalized patients

Infection Prevention in Practice, 2022
Summary: Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) has recognized antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a top threat to global health. However, the public has an incomplete understanding of AMR and its consequences.
Linda Jorgoni, Erica Camardo, Lianne Jeffs, Yoshiko Nakamachi, Deborah Somanader, Chaim M. Bell, Andrew M. Morris   +6 more
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Targeted antimicrobial use admission provides an actionable denominator for evaluating inpatient length of therapy

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology
Our novel antibiotic use denominator, targeted antimicrobial use admission, is defined as an inpatient admission in which a select agent or group of agents is administered.
April Dyer, Elizabeth Dodds-Ashley, Angelina Davis, Melissa Johnson, Travis Jones, Rebekah W. Moehring   +5 more
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Antimicrobial stewardship curriculum [PDF]

JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 2019
Graphical Abstract.
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