Pharmacist-Led Antimicrobial Stewardship

Expanding Antimicrobial Stewardship to Urgent Care Centers Through a Pharmacist-Led Culture Follow-up Program

INTRODUCTION Urgent care centers represent a high-volume outpatient setting where antibiotics are prescribed frequently but resources for antimicrobial stewardship may be scarce. In 2015, our pharmacist-led Emergency Department (ED) culture follow-up program was expanded to include two urgent care (UC) sites within the same health system. The UC program is conducted by ED and infectious disease...

Correction to: Expanding Antimicrobial Stewardship to Urgent Care Centers Through a Pharmacist-Led Culture Follow-up Program

In the original publication, the data labels have been inverted in Figure 1. The corrected figure is given here.

611Early Impact of a Pharmacist-led Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Conducted without Clinical Decision-support Software at a Community Teaching Hospital

Impact of pharmacist-led antibiotic stewardship program in a PICU of low/middle-income country

Antimicrobial stewardship.

Antimicrobial resistance is increasing; however, antimicrobial drug development is slowing. Now more than ever before, antimicrobial stewardship is of the utmost importance as a way to optimize the use of antimicrobials to prevent the development of resistance and improve patient outcomes. This review describes the why, what, who, how, when, and where of antimicrobial stewardship. Techniques of...