Antimicrobial stewardship though FeverPAIN score: Successes and challenges in secondary care

Global Antimicrobial Stewardship: Challenges and Successes from Frontline Stewards

The current global overuse and misuse of antimicrobials requires an urgent international response. According to the 2014 World Health Organization (WHO) Antimicrobial Resistance Global Report on Surveillance, deaths per year due to antibiotic resistance are reported as high as 23,000 in the United States, 25,000 in the European Union, 38,000 in Thailand and 58,000 in India [1]. The WHO develope...

A Survey of Antimicrobial Stewardship Practices in the Western United States: Successes and Challenges

Antimicrobial Stewardship in Pediatric Intensive Care

Team Composition IDSA recommends that ASPs be multidisciplinary, including a pediatric infectious disease physician leader, a clinical pharmacist (preferably with infectious disease training), a clinical microbiologist, an information system specialist, an infection prevention specialist, and a hospital epidemiologist.1,2 Nguyen-Ha et al2 described a more limited ASP team with decreased drug st...

Antimicrobial stewardship programs in health care systems.

Antimicrobial stewardship programs in hospitals seek to optimize antimicrobial prescribing in order to improve individual patient care as well as reduce hospital costs and slow the spread of antimicrobial resistance. With antimicrobial resistance on the rise worldwide and few new agents in development, antimicrobial stewardship programs are more important than ever in ensuring the continued eff...

Antimicrobial stewardship in long-term care facilities.

Although antimicrobial stewardship has been shown to improve microbiologic susceptibility patterns, decrease drug toxicities, and lower overall drug costs in the inpatient setting, there are few studies assessing programs in the long-term care (LTC) setting. Implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in LTC settings can be challenging as the LTC setting houses a unique population of frail ...