Antimicrobial Stewardship Implementation in Nigerian Hospitals: Gaps and Challenges

Antimicrobial stewardship programs in freestanding children's hospitals.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Single-center evaluations of pediatric antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) suggest that ASPs are effective in reducing and improving antibiotic prescribing, but studies are limited. Our objective was to compare antibiotic prescribing rates in a group of pediatric hospitals with formalized ASPs (ASP+) to a group of concurrent control hospitals without formalized st...

Remote Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals

Antimicrobial stewardship has become standard practice at university medical centers, but the practice is more difficult to implement in remote community hospitals that lack infectious diseases trained practitioners. Starting in 2011, six community hospitals within the Vidant Health system began an antimicrobial stewardship program utilizing pharmacists who reviewed charts remotely from Vidant ...

Frequently Identified Gaps in Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Critical Access Hospitals

Antimicrobial stewardship in Victorian hospitals: a statewide survey to identify current gaps.

OBJECTIVE To determine antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) activities currently being undertaken at Victorian hospitals, identifying gaps when assessed against the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care criteria for effective AMS. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A survey open to all Victorian health services, conducted between January and March 2012. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES A...

Antibiotic Utilization and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals