Rebekah H. Wrenn, PharmD
Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) pharmacists managed a flood of new SARS-CoV-2 anti-infectives and chipped in wherever else they were needed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But those efforts exacted a price: a de-emphasis on basic AMS services that may have led in some places to an initial surge in potentially inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, studies suggest.
Although antibiotic use has since normalized—and the overall