Five ways to optimize your antimicrobial stewardship program For many years, antimicrobial stewardship has been an increasingly hot topic, and for good reason – antimicrobial resistance, classified by ...

The threat of increased incidence of antibiotic-resistant strains is well understood in the healthcare industry, creating urgency to combat antimicrobial resistance on the local, regional and national ...

The threat of antimicrobial resistance — the ability of organisms to defeat the very drugs designed to kill them — is well known in modern medicine. It is the reason infections are becoming harder to ...

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) reduced inpatient antibiotic use by 12 percent and decreased use of broad-spectrum antibiotics through a multi-year, system-wide antimicrobial stewardship ...

Background: Antimicrobial decision making in intensive care units (ICUs) is challenging. Unnecessary antimicrobials contribute to the development of resistant pathogens, Clostridium difficile ...

The incorporation of information technology (IT) into an antimicrobial stewardship program can help improve efficiency of the interventions and facilitate tracking and reporting of key metrics. The ...

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Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers customized a Pennsylvania hospital’s electronic medical record to automate antimicrobial stewardship ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains a major global healthcare challenge, undermining the effectiveness of treatments for common infections and threatening modern medical advances. Improved ...