Eight Habits of Highly Effective Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs to Meet the Joint Commission Standards for 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...

Structure of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Leading U.S. Hospitals

Preparing for The Joint Commission Standard on Antimicrobial Stewardship: Practical Tips for Survey Success

Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs)

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Antimicrobial stewardship programs.

The development of antimicrobial agents represents one of the most significant achievements in medicine during the past century. However, the emergence of antimicrobial resistance combined with the downturn in the development of new antimicrobial agents in the pharmaceutical industry poses unanticipated challenges in the effective management of infection. The issue of how we can most effectivel...