Five ways to optimize your antimicrobial stewardship program For many years, antimicrobial stewardship has been an increasingly hot topic, and for good reason – antimicrobial resistance, classified by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Antimicrobial stewardship programs continue to demonstrate value in today's healthcare systems and are necessary now more than ever. Rates of antibiotic resistance are increasing with few new ...

Researchers have conducted a landmark survey to identify and stratify antimicrobial stewardship programs into four different groups -- a first step toward studying the effectiveness of these models to ...

Here are eight findings related to antimicrobial stewardship in the past month, beginning with the most recent. 1. Antibiotic treatment courses in long-term care facilities often exceed the time in ...

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Just weeks after discharge, the patient is back at the hospital. This time, the infection has worsened, sepsis has set in, and emergency surgery is needed. A preventable outcome had intervention come ...

Texas Children’s Hospital Pharmacy Department promotes the mission of the hospital of providing quality and cost-effective care. The mission of the pharmacy department is: To excel in the provision of ...