Nationwide survey of pharmacists’ involvement in antimicrobial stewardship programs in Nigerian tertiary hospitals

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...

Structure of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Leading U.S. Hospitals

Antimicrobial stewardship resources and activities for children in tertiary hospitals in Australasia: a comprehensive survey.

OBJECTIVE To identify current antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) resources and activities for children in hospitals throughout Australasia, to identify gaps in services. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Tertiary paediatric hospitals (children's hospitals and combined adult and paediatric hospitals that offer tertiary paediatric care) in every state and territory of Australia and the North and So...

A Survey of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Korea, 2015

The study was conducted to evaluate the Antibiotic Stewardship Program (ASP) in Korean hospitals compared with the previous two surveys in 2006 and 2012. The information on ASPs was collected through an online-based survey sent by e-mail to 192 infectious diseases specialists in 101 Korean hospitals in September 2015. Fifty-four hospitals (53.5%, 54/101) responded to the online survey. One infe...

Reduction of Antimicrobial Resistance among Gram- Negative Pathogens after Antimicrobial Stewardship in Three Tertiary Egyptian Hospitals

1579. Reduction of Antimicrobial Resistance among GramNegative Pathogens after Antimicrobial Stewardship in Three Tertiary Egyptian Hospitals Amani El Kholy, MD; Samia A. Girgis, MD.; Mervat A.F. Shetta, MD.; Arwa Ramadan, MD. and Dalia H. AbdElhHamid, MD.; Clinical Pathology, Cairo University Medical School, Cairo, Egypt, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt, Clinical Pathol...