To cite: Charani E, Holmes AH. BMJ Qual Saf 2013;22:885–887. Antimicrobial resistance has been recognised as a major global health threat and is now on the political agenda with world leaders recognising the necessity to act to preserve the potency of antimicrobial agents and invest funds to discover new ones. Despite the majority of antimicrobial prescribing and consumption occurring in primar...

Element Stewardship Abstracts (ESAs) are prepared to provide The Nature Conservancy's Stewardship staff and other land managers with current management-related information on those species and communities that are most important to protect, or most important to control. The abstracts organize and summarize data from numerous sources including literature and researchers and managers actively wor...

Human activities affect Earth’s life support systems so profoundly as to threaten many of the ecological services that are essential to society. To address this challenge, a new science agenda is needed that integrates people with the rest of nature to help chart a more sustainable trajectory for the relationship between society and the biosphere. This paper describes Earth Stewardship, an init...

BACKGROUND With rising healthcare costs and a focus on quality, there is a growing need to promote resource stewardship in medical education. Physicians need to be able to communicate effectively with patients/caregivers seeking tests and treatments that are unnecessary. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of an interactive workshop on residents' knowledge of resource stewardship and commun...

MPAs Defined IUCN–The Wo rld Conserva t i o n Union defines an MPA as “any area of the intertidal or subtidal terrain, together with its ove rlying wa ter and associated flora , fa u n a , h i s torical and cultural feature s , which has been reserved by law or other effective means to protect part or all of the enclosed env i ro n m e n t ” (Kelleher 1999). Marine space can be designated in di...

As appeals for public access of research data continue to proliferate, many scholarly publishers-alongside funders, institutions, and libraries-are expanding their role to address this need. Here we outline eight recommendations and a set of suggested action items for publishers to promote and contribute to increasing access to data. This call to action emerged from a summit that brought togeth...

234. Characterization of Inappropriate Antimicrobial Therapy Following Changes in Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies Christine Pham, PharmD; Jennifer Brown, MD; Cinda Christensen, PharmD; Pharmacy Services, University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA; Pharmacy Services, Universit...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) views the area of Archive Management, as comprising three components: Information Technology Infrastructure, Customer Service, and Scientific Stewardship. This last component, Scientific Stewardship, can be characterized as the long-term preservation of the scien...

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