A survey of Children’s Hospital Association hospitals finds only 38 percent of member hospitals have an antimicrobial stewardship program in place, according to a study published in Infection Control ...
Among the busy halls of emergency departments nationwide, a silent battle against antimicrobial resistance is unfolding. A recent analysis of more than 152 million ED visits nationwide found 27.6% ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inspired by a Sunday homily about the “good steward,” McGowan and Gerding thought of antimicrobial stewardship ...
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 ...
Beyond the Point: Learning From Outcomes After Inpatient Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy How Should We Manage the Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance in Patients With Cancer? An Oncological and ...
This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the emergence and progression of antimicrobial stewardship in US healthcare today. It is specially designed to offer insight for healthcare ...
The FDA frames the document as part of its ongoing efforts to promote judicious use of medically important antibiotics, which ...
Post-treatment interval decisions may shape both clinical outcomes and antimicrobial stewardship in bovine respiratory ...
USAID-funded TRANSFORM project has united 26 organizations in antimicrobial use stewardship in an effort to combat antimicrobial resistance MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antimicrobial use in animals ...
Maintaining antibiotic costs by ensuring appropriate antimicrobial utilization over time to ensure fiscal stability is imperative. Direct and indirect antibiotic costs should be considered. Direct ...
On dairy farms, most antibiotics are used to treat clinical mastitis and to prevent new infections at dry-off time. However, antibiotic use varies widely between farms. This variation shows that ...