Outpatient antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) efforts at many medical centers took a back seat during the COVID-19 pandemic, but now is a good time to revamp them, presenters said at the 2022 ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy, in San Francisco. Pharmacists can play a key role in areas ripe with incorrect use or overuse of antibiotics, such as urinary tract infections (UTIs) and Clostridioides difficile infections, the experts noted.
Antimicrobial stewardship consists of