Antimicrobial stewardship: fighting antimicrobial resistance and protecting global public health

MAA Majumder, S Rahman, D Cohall… - Infection and drug …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to global public health. It increases
morbidity and mortality, and is associated with high economic costs due to its health care …

Antimicrobial stewardship: how the microbiology laboratory can right the ship

P Morency-Potvin, DN Schwartz… - Clinical microbiology …, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antimicrobial stewardship is a bundle of integrated interventions employed to optimize the
use of antimicrobials in health care settings. While infectious-disease-trained physicians …

Knowledge and attitude towards antimicrobial resistance among final year undergraduate paramedical students at University of Gondar, Ethiopia

MA Seid, MS Hussen - BMC infectious diseases, 2018 - Springer
Background Globally, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a complex public problem, which is
mainly fuelled by inappropriate use of antimicrobials. Rational use of antimicrobials is the …

Antibiotic use: a cross-sectional survey assessing the knowledge, attitudes and practices amongst students of a school of medicine in Italy

G Scaioli, MR Gualano, R Gili, S Masucci, F Bert… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Since antibiotic resistance has become a worldwide public health concern and
is in part related to physicians' lack of knowledge, it is essential to focus our attention on …

Antimicrobial stewardship programs in resource constrained environments: understanding and addressing the need of the systems

AK Kakkar, N Shafiq, G Singh, P Ray… - Frontiers in Public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
World Health Organization (WHO) has identified antimicrobial resistance as one of the top
10 threats to public health. The agency has formulated a global action plan to tackle …

Knowledge of community pharmacists about antibiotics, and their perceptions and practices regarding antimicrobial stewardship: a cross-sectional study in Punjab …

MR Sarwar, A Saqib, S Iftikhar… - Infection and drug …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: To evaluate the knowledge of community pharmacists about antibiotics, and their
perceptions and practices toward antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in Punjab, Pakistan …

Mapping antimicrobial stewardship in undergraduate medical, dental, pharmacy, nursing and veterinary education in the United Kingdom

E Castro-Sánchez, LN Drumright, M Gharbi, S Farrell… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Objectives To investigate the teaching of antimicrobial stewardship (AS) in undergraduate
healthcare educational degree programmes in the United Kingdom (UK). Participants and …

South African medical students' perceptions and knowledge about antibiotic resistance and appropriate prescribing: are we providing adequate training to future …

S Wasserman, S Potgieter, E Shoul… - South African medical …, 2017 - journals.co.za
Background. Education of medical students has been identified by the World Health
Organization as an important aspect of antibiotic resistance (ABR) containment. Surveys …

The five Ds of outpatient antibiotic stewardship for urinary tract infections

MC Goebel, BW Trautner… - Clinical microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are one of the most common indications for antibiotic
prescriptions in the outpatient setting. Given rising rates of antibiotic resistance among …

The role of education in antimicrobial stewardship

J Satterfield, AR Miesner, KM Percival - Journal of Hospital Infection, 2020 - Elsevier
The role of antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) has expanded in health systems.
ASP interventions often contain an educational component; however, current guidelines …