Purpose. The results of the first five years of an ongoing antimicrobial control program are
reported. Methods. In 1998, a multidisciplinary antimicrobial subcommittee of the pharmacy …

The authors' hospital embarked on a three‐component, multidisciplinary, hospital‐based
antimicrobial use program to cut costs and reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use. Initially …

The discovery of potent antimicrobial agents was one of the greatest contributions to
medicine in the 20th century. When introduced, they had an immediate and dramatic impact …

BACKGROUND: The Study of the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC)
conducted in 1975-1976 is the gold standard for judging the resource needs of infection …

The economics of preventing hospital-acquired infections is most often described in general
terms. The underlying concepts and mechanisms are rarely made explicit but should be …

Antimicrobial resistance has been identified as a major public health crisis. National
summary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that …

The objective of the present study was to predict the economic consequences of healthcare-
acquired infections arising among admissions to Australian acute care hospitals. A …

Background In many North American hospitals, conventional infection control operational
models often struggle to provide sufficient support to frontline health care workers. The …

Monetary valuations of the economic cost of health care-associated infections (HAIs) are
important for decision making and should be estimated accurately. Erroneously high …

Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program in a hospital is complicated by a
variety of challenges. Key issues facing stewardship personnel include recruiting personnel …