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

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...

Does An Antimicrobial Stewardship Program for Carbapenem Use Reduce Costs? An Observation in Tehran, Iran.

Introduction: Inappropriate administration of antimicrobials has led to increased antibiotic resistance as well as burden of infectious diseases. Antibiotic stewardship programs (ASPs) help prevent resistance through improved utilization of antimicrobial agents while potentially decrease costs of treatment. Method: We reviewed 186 infectious disease (ID) consultations from two internal disea...

Prospective audit and feedback of antimicrobial stewardship in critical care: program implementation, experience, and challenges.

Antimicrobial stewardship has been defined as the limitation of inappropriate use of antimicrobials while optimizing the selection, dosing, route, and duration of antimicrobial therapy to maximize clinical cure or prevent infection; limiting unintended consequences, such as emergence of resistance, occurrence of adverse drug events, and selection of pathogenic organisms (such as Clostridium dif...

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

Antimicrobial stewardship at a large tertiary care academic medical center: cost analysis before, during, and after a 7-year program.

BACKGROUND An antimicrobial stewardship program was fully implemented at the University of Maryland Medical Center in July 2001 (beginning of fiscal year [FY] 2002). Essential to the program was an antimicrobial monitoring team (AMT) consisting of an infectious diseases-trained clinical pharmacist and a part-time infectious diseases physician that provided real-time monitoring of antimicrobial ...