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 ...

A mail-based audit and feedback (A&F) program to improve antibiotic prescribing among primary care physicians was associated ...

Among the busy halls of emergency departments nationwide, a silent battle against antimicrobial resistance is unfolding. A recent analysis of more than 152 million ED visits nationwide found 27.6% ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inspired by a Sunday homily about the “good steward,” McGowan and Gerding thought of antimicrobial stewardship ...

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 ...

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the emergence and progression of antimicrobial stewardship in US healthcare today. It is specially designed to offer insight for healthcare ...

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 ...

Resistance to antibiotics is increasing worldwide. This also applies to drugs that are central to the treatment of tuberculosis (TB), such as bedaquiline. An international panel of experts from 32 ...

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Imagine a future where common infections once easily cured by antibiotics become life-threatening again. This is the growing reality posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR), now recognized as one of ...

USAID-funded TRANSFORM project has united 26 organizations in antimicrobial use stewardship in an effort to combat antimicrobial resistance MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antimicrobial use in animals ...

Clinicians should treat ventilator‑associated pneumonia (VAP) until the infection is controlled and the patient is clearly ...