Executive Summary: Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

Results of survey on implementation of Infectious Diseases Society of America and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America guidelines for developing an institutional program to enhance antimicrobial stewardship.

Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Tamar F. Barlam, Sara E. Cosgrove, Lilian M. Abbo, Conan MacDougall, Audrey N. Schuetz, Edward J. Septimus, Arjun Srinivasan, Timothy H. Dellit, Yngve T. Falck-Ytter, Neil O. Fishman, Cindy W. Hamilton, Timothy C. Jenkins, Pamela A. Lips...

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Infectious Diseases Society of America Joint Committee on the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance: guidelines for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals.

Antimicrobial resistance results in increased morbidity, mortality, and costs of health care. Prevention of the emergence of resistance and the dissemination of resistant microorganisms will reduce these adverse effects and their attendant costs. Appropriate antimicrobial stewardship that includes optimal selection, dose, and duration of treatment, as well as control of antibiotic use, will pre...

Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America guidelines for developing an institutional program to enhance antimicrobial stewardship.

Timothy H. Dellit, Robert C. Owens, John E. McGowan, Jr., Dale N. Gerding, Robert A. Weinstein, John P. Burke, W. Charles Huskins, David L. Paterson, Neil O. Fishman, Christopher F. Carpenter, P. J. Brennan, Marianne Billeter, and Thomas M. Hooton Harborview Medical Center and the University of Washington, Seattle; Maine Medical Center, Portland; Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia; Hines Vetera...

The Critical Role of the Staff Nurse in Antimicrobial Stewardship--Unrecognized, but Already There.

An essential participant in antimicrobial stewardship who has been unrecognized and underutilized is the "staff nurse." Although the role of staff nurses has not formally been recognized in guidelines for implementing and operating antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) or defined in the medical literature, they have always performed numerous functions that are integral to successful antimic...