Create Allies, IDSA Stewardship Commitments Should Prioritize Health Professions Learners.

The State of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Michigan: Results of a Statewide Survey on Antimicrobial Stewardship Efforts in Acute Care Hospitals.

Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases, St. Joseph Mercy Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Chief Operations Officer, Michigan Pharmacists Association, Lansing Michigan; Pharmacy Specialist, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan; Clinical Pharmacist Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit Medical Center, Detroit, Michigan; ¶Cl...

Antimicrobial Stewardship with Intravenous to Oral Conversion and Future Directions of Antimicrobial Stewardship

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Antimicrobial stewardship (ASP) as defined by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS) are " coordinated interventions designe...

An Interprofessional Curriculum on Antimicrobial Stewardship Improves Knowledge and Attitudes Toward Appropriate Antimicrobial Use and Collaboration

BACKGROUND Inappropriate antimicrobial use can threaten patient safety and is the focus of collaborative physician and pharmacist antimicrobial stewardship teams. However, antimicrobial stewardship is not comprehensively taught in medical or pharmacy school curricula. Addressing this deficiency can teach an important concept as well as model interprofessional healthcare. METHODS We created an...

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Special Issue on Problem-based Learning in Health Professions Education/Toward Advancement of Problem-Based Learning Research and Practice in Health Professions Education: Motivating Learners, Facilitating Processes, and Suppo

Antimicrobial Stewardship in Pediatric Intensive Care

Team Composition IDSA recommends that ASPs be multidisciplinary, including a pediatric infectious disease physician leader, a clinical pharmacist (preferably with infectious disease training), a clinical microbiologist, an information system specialist, an infection prevention specialist, and a hospital epidemiologist.1,2 Nguyen-Ha et al2 described a more limited ASP team with decreased drug st...