Healthcare Claims Data: An Underutilized Tool for Pediatric Outpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship

Successful Establishment of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) for Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT)

Antimicrobial stewardship: lessons from human healthcare.

This paper focuses on antimicrobial stewardshipin human healthcare, and some concepts possibly transferable to veterinary medicine. Antimicrobial stewardship is a multidisciplinary effort to reduce antimicrobial resistance in human pathogens, when future drug development is dwindling. These strategies encourage healthcare staff to use antimicrobials prudently and, when needed, for as short a du...

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...

Characteristics of Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Current Status of the Sharing Antimicrobial Reports for Pediatric Stewardship (SHARPS) Collaborative

In response to the growing epidemic of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP) have been rapidly implemented in the United States (US). This study examines the prevalence of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) seven core elements of a successful ASP within a large subset of US Children's Hospitals. In 2016, a survey was conducted of...

Automated Metrics for Potential Adverse Outcomes in Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship