Antibiotic Stewardship: The “Real World” When Resources Are Limited

Antibiotic stewardship: the "real world" when resources are limited.

Minimizing Uncertainty in Semantic Identification When Computing Resources Are Limited

In this paper we examine the problem of automatic semantic identification of entities in multimedia documents from a computing point of view. Specifically, we identify as main points to consider the storage of the required knowledge and the computational complexity of the handling of the knowledge as well as of the actual identification process. In order to tackle the above we utilize (i) a spa...

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...

Initiating an antimicrobial stewardship program with limited resources

Methods We developed an AMS program, headed by a pharmacist and infectious diseases (ID) physician. Drug utilization reviews identified an expensive, broad-spectrum agent (piperacillin-tazobactam [P-T]) for initial targeting. An AMS form for listing clinical data and recommendations was developed. A daily list of patients receiving P-T was used to identify target patients for intervention. The ...

Packaging Health Services When Resources Are Limited: The Example of a Cervical Cancer Screening Visit

BACKGROUND Increasing evidence supporting the value of screening women for cervical cancer once in their lifetime, coupled with mounting interest in scaling up successful screening demonstration projects, present challenges to public health decision makers seeking to take full advantage of the single-visit opportunity to provide additional services. We present an analytic framework for packagin...