Antibiotic overuse contributes to antibiotic resistance, which is a threat public health. stewardship practice dedicated prescribing antibiotics only when necessary and, are considered necessary, promoting use of the appropriate agent(s), dose, duration, and route therapy optimize clinical outcomes while minimizing unintended consequences use. Because there differences in common infectious cond...

Sharon W. Su, MD, served as assistant professor of pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Department of Pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She recently relocated to Portland, Oregon, to become medical director in pediatric nephrology at Randall Children’s Hospital and affiliate assistant professor of pediatrics at Oregon Health and Science Universit...