Antibiotic stewardship programs: Overcoming barriers to successful implementation

Asset Management Programs for Stormwater and Wastewater Systems: Overcoming Barriers to Development and Implementation

202Antifungal Stewardship: The Clinician's Perspective on Barriers to Implementation

202. Antifungal Stewardship: The Clinician’s Perspective on Barriers to Implementation Amar Safdar, MD; Debra Goff, PharmD, FCCP; Jason Gallagher, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS; Donald Hsu, PharmD; Edward Eiland, PharmD, MBA, BCPS-ID, FASHP; Jennifer Hanrahan, DO; Purvi Smith, MS, MPH; Nkechi Azie, MD; Infectious Diseases and Immunology, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY; College of...

Antibiotic Stewardship without an Antibiotic Stewardship Program?

To promote heightened vigilance concerning antibiotic agents in Canadian hospitals, Accreditation Canada has implemented antibiotic stewardship as a required organizational practice.1 Antibiotic stewardship is the process of ensuring that only necessary and appropriate antibiotic agents are used and that their use is appropriate for each individual patient. It involves optimizing all steps of a...

Overcoming barriers to guideline implementation: the case of cardiac rehabilitation.

AIMS This study explored the strategies used by cardiac rehabilitation (CR) coordinators to overcome the obstacles to implementation of the evidence-based Reducing Risk in Heart Disease guidelines. METHODS The study design used qualitative, semistructured in-depth interviews with 20 CR coordinators from New South Wales, Australia, to explore the strategies used to facilitate guideline impleme...

Overcoming barriers to sustainable implementation of the ISO 9001 system

Purpose – This study aims to explore the barriers to implementation of ISO 9000 in China, and to identify how these barriers can be overcome. Design/methodology/approach – Using a structural questionnaire survey, this paper examines the main barriers for enterprises in effective implementation of the ISO 9001 standard. Findings – This paper highlights the problems in implementing the standard, ...