43 Finally, alongside terms and conditions for antibiotic stewardship reimbursement mechanisms for antibiotics need to include terms and conditions that ensure manufacturers limit the exposure of antibiotics to the environment.74 This also involves procurement of reaction intermediates and active pharmaceutical...
Keywords: antibiotic resistance, antibiotic stewardship, infection control, hand hygiene, surveillance networks, care bundles, environment, regulations, human medicine, animal medicine Background In the golden age of the discovery of antibiotics, these potent "miracle" drugs saved millions of lives. In ...
Each participant presented data and the results of country-specific intervention programmes targeted at the control of AMR and healthcare-associated infection, such as infection prevention and control and antibiotic stewardship strategies. Thirty-four posters provided for the first time a unique overview...
Studies of the appropriateness of antibiotic use are ur- gently needed to guide antibiotic stewardship strategies aiming at reducing the use of agents such as cephalospo- rins in order to conserve their lifespan. Abbreviations CI: Confidence interval; ECDC: European Center for Disease Prevention ...
Each participant presented data and the results of country-specific intervention programmes targeted at the control of AMR and healthcare-associated infection, such as infection prevention and control and antibiotic stewardship strategies. Thirty-four posters provided for the first time a unique overview...
practices was able to nearly halve the inappropriate use of antibiotics through quarterly monitoring and feedback of the physicians' prescribing patterns. The research, which is being presented at IDWeek, is one of the first to look at an antimicrobial stewardship intervention in the outpatient ...