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Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) have become important strategies for addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Despite the increasing number of international publications identifying the important roles played by nurses as part of ASPs in low-
The impact of a National Antimicrobial Stewardship Program on antibiotic prescribing in primary care: an interrupted time series analysis. Clin Infect Dis. 2019;69(2):227–32. PubMed Google Scholar Molstad S, Lofmark S, Carlin K, Erntell M, Aspevall O, Blad L, et al. Lessons learnt ...
Monitoring of adherence of the antimicrobial usage to the guidelines of antimicrobial stewardship program and also determination of sensitivity of the micro organisms towards different antimicrobials used, in the patients of community acquired infections and hospital acquired infections, can play a major ...
Our results were communicated to every institution's medical commission, and each hospital considerably improved its organization to implement national recommendations, the medical teams were in fine sensitized to the antibiotic stewardship policy. The pertinence of a means indicator such as ICATB is prob...
Rationalizing the use use of Linezolid through Antibiotic Stewardship program in a tertiary care teaching hospital in Pakistan International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Volume 16, Supplement 1, June 2012, Pages e441–e442 PDF (91 K) Patterns of antibiotic consumption in Iran during 2000–2009 ...
BMC Infectious Diseases (2023) 23:138 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-023-08061-x BMC Infectious Diseases RESEARCH Open Access Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program in the Vascular Surgery ward of a university tertiary care hospital in Pavia, Northern Italy Marco ...
Antimicrobial stewardship programs attempt to balance the demand for these life-saving drugs with the need to preserve their future efficacy. A comprehensive evidence-based stewardship program should include elements chosen from the recommendations based on local antimicrobials use and resistance problems ...