1091. An Ethnographic Approach to Interrogating Antimicrobial Stewardship at US Teaching 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...

Remote Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals

Antimicrobial stewardship has become standard practice at university medical centers, but the practice is more difficult to implement in remote community hospitals that lack infectious diseases trained practitioners. Starting in 2011, six community hospitals within the Vidant Health system began an antimicrobial stewardship program utilizing pharmacists who reviewed charts remotely from Vidant ...

Proposing an Ethnographic Approach to Teaching Business Chinese

Based on a discussion of current issues in teaching business Chinese, this article proposes an ethnographic approach for the teaching of business Chinese. Specifically, it highlights the imperative for the ethnographic approach and details the components of this approach. In the discussion, reference is made to the research findings in contrastive rhetoric, ethnographic research and genre analy...

The Scottish approach to enhancing antimicrobial stewardship.

In 2002, the Scottish Executive produced the Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy and Scottish Action Plan, which highlighted antimicrobial stewardship as a key objective in combating resistance. An important response, as a part of the Ministerial Healthcare Associated Infection Task Force work programme was the publication of 'Antimicrobial Prescribing Policy and Practice in Scotland: recommendat...

An Opt-out Approach to Antimicrobial Stewardship Utilizing Electronic Alert Recommendations at a Community Hospital