Methods: This open forum article describes the process of growing an institutional culture around antimicrobial stewardship from the perspective of a 90-bed district hospital and a regional referral hospital located in the rural Garden Route District of the Western Cape province. Results: A team of ...
To comprehensively map published data of evidence of AMR in healthcare settings in South Africa, encompassing the exploration of antibiotic prescribing practices and the implementation of antimicrobial stewardship initiatives. METHODS. The scoping review methodology was based on the guidelines outlined by ...
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) aims to improve antibiotic use while reducing resistance and its consequences. There is a paucity of data on the availability of AMS programmes in southern Nigeria. Further, there is no data on Nigerian healthcare professionals’ knowledge of the WHO ‘Access, Watch...
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) describes a coherent set of actions that ensure optimal use of antimicrobials to improve patient outcomes, while limiting the risk of adverse events (including antimicrobial resistance (AMR)). Introduction of AMS programmes in hospitals is part of most national action pl...
Similarly, the Thai government announced a One Health strategy to tackle AMR in 2015, including monitoring antimicrobial usage, antibiotic stewardship, and infection control, preventing the spread of AMR bacteria, and raising public awareness [38, 39]. The positive correlation with life expectancy ...
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) aims to improve antibiotic use while reducing resistance and its consequences. There is a paucity of data on the availability of AMS programmes in southern Nigeria. Further, there is no data on Nigerian healthcare professionals’ knowledge of the WHO ‘Access, Watch...
Research on the contextual drivers of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programme interventions in neonatal units is limited. METHODS. As part of a prospective mixed-methods multidisciplinary neonatal AMS (NeoAMS) interventional study in 14 South African hospitals, we applied a three-phased process to ...
Our analysis thus provides both a case study in the construction and contextual variability of biomedical knowledge, and an exemplar of the need to take seriously situated rationalities and context specificity when developing antibiotic stewardship measures (Kakkar et al., 2018). Study settings and ...
Research has the potential to make a difference through guiding public health policies and informing antimicrobial stewardship and infection control plans. Yet historically for many reasons, fewer studies on antimicrobial resistance are published from Africa. Most of these studies focus on infections in ...
This systematic review and meta-analysis synthesizes current evidence regarding the association between antimicrobial stewardship programs and the