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Indications for medical antibiotic prophylaxis and potential targets for antimicrobial stewardship intervention : a narrative review

, 2022
: Background: Most of the antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) literature has focused on antimicrobial consumption for the treatment of infections, for the prophylaxis of surgical site infection and for the prevention of endocarditis.
Charani, Esmita, Kofteridis, D.P., Kofteridis, Diamantis P., Ioannou, P., Kostyanev, Tomislav, Vlahovic-Palcevski, Vera, Kostyanev, T., Charani, E., Ioannou, Petros, Karakonstantis, Stamatis, Vlahovic-Palcevski, V., Schouten, Jeroen, Karakonstantis, S., Schouten, J.A.   +13 more
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Antimicrobial Stewardship for Respiratory Pathogens in Swine

, 2020
The aim of this study was to set up antimicrobial stewardship for swine respiratory pathogens following the recommendation from the European Medicine Agency.
Vicens Enrique-Tarancón, Anna Vilaró, Elena Novell, Lorenzo Fraile, Jordi Balielles, Eduard Allué   +5 more
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Antimicrobial Stewardship at Transitions of Care to Outpatient Settings: Synopsis and Strategies

, 2022
Inappropriate antibiotic use and associated consequences, including pathogen resistance and Clostridioides difficile infection, continue to serve as significant threats in the United States, with increasing incidence in the community setting.
Elaine Liu, Liu, Elaine, Kuti, Joseph L., Joseph L. Kuti, Linder, Kristin E., Kristin E. Linder   +5 more
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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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Delivery of antimicrobial stewardship competencies in UK pre-registration nurse education programmes: A national cross-sectional survey [PDF]

, 2021
Background. Registered nurses perform numerous functions critical to the success of antimicrobial stewardship, but only 63% of pre-registration nursing programmes include any teaching about stewardship.
Gallagher, Rose, Castro-Sánchez, Enrique, Gould, Dinah, Nurse Antimicrobial Stewardship Group (NAG), Hawker, Clare, Courtenay, Molly   +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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Transitioning of Helicobacter pylori Therapy from Trial and Error to Antimicrobial Stewardship

, 2020
Helicobacter pylori is the only major infection for which antimicrobial therapy is not designed using the principles of antimicrobial stewardship. Traditionally, antimicrobial therapy is a susceptibility-based therapy, achieves high cure rates, and ...
David Y. Graham
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Cross-Sectional Survey on the Current Role of Clinical Pharmacists among Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes in Catalonia: Much Ado about Nothing

, 2023
Background. Antimicrobial resistance killed 1.27 million people in 2019, so urgent actions are desperately needed. Antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) are essential to optimize antimicrobial use.
Alexander Almendral, Santiago Grau, Enric Limón, Sergi Hernández, Sara Ortonobes, Montse Tuset, on behalf of the Catalan Infection Control Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme (VINCat-ASP), on behalf of the Catalan Infection Control Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme (VINCat-ASP) on behalf of the Catalan Infection Control Antimicrobial Stewardship Programme (VINCat-ASP), Daniel Echeverria-Esnal, Anna Murgadella-Sancho, Ariadna Padullés, Ramón García-Paricio, Melisa Barrantes-González   +12 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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