antibiotic resistance
Improving Antimicrobial Stewardship
Antimicrobial stewardship is paramount in healthcare and ensures the optimal use of antimicrobials to improve ...
NOVEMBER 15, 2024
Clock Ticking on CDC’s 180-day Continuous Reporting Data Requirement for Antibiotics
Since the new year, health systems with certain filing requirements have had to submit antibiotic use and ...
MARCH 20, 2024
Practical Approaches to Expand Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals
Community hospitals have unique antimicrobial stewardship challenges, but there are many practical strategies for ...
DECEMBER 12, 2023
DOD Hospitals Not Good at Following ‘Orders’ for Stewardship
In 2017, the DOD mandated that its hospitals establish ASPs that incorporate these CDC core elements.
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
WHO: More New Antibiotics Needed
Just 12 new antibiotics entered the market between 2017-2021 and too few are in the pipeline, according to the ...
MARCH 15, 2023
Hospital-Related Resistant Infections Grew 15% During Pandemic
Hospital-related resistant infections and deaths increased at least 15% during the first year of the COVID-19 ...
JULY 14, 2022
The Resurgence of the Tetracyclines
This monograph describes the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of tetracyclines and outlines the unique ...
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Stewardship and Communication Boost Appropriate ABx
The promotion of antimicrobial stewardship programs, as well as close collaboration between pharmacists and other ...
AUGUST 23, 2021
Penicillin Allergy Interventions Improve Preferred Antibiotic Use
About 10% of all patients in the United States have a penicillin allergy listed in their medical records. But in ...
JULY 22, 2021
Stewardship Programs Can Improve ABx Use in Cancer Patients
Because of the complexity of their cases, immunocompromised patients such as individuals with cancer often have ...
JULY 22, 2021
MRSA Rates in Hospitals Correspond With Higher Antibiotic Prescribing
A 5% increase in MRSA prevalence was associated with the use of anti-MRSA antibiotics, according to IDWeek 2020 ...
JANUARY 4, 2021
Resistance Benchmarking Tool Available
Does your hospital need to battle the growing problem of antibiotic resistance? If so, a metric for measuring ...
JULY 14, 2020
