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  2. Antimicrobial stewardship - Wikipedia

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    In the U.S., within the context of physicians' prescribing freedom (choice of prescription drugs), AMS had largely been voluntary self-regulation in the form of policies and appeals to adhere to a prescribing self-discipline until 2017, when the Joint Commission prescribed that hospitals should have an Antimicrobial Stewardship team, which was ...

  3. Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists - Wikipedia

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    Examples of educational programming offered by SIDP include on-demand modules, live webinars, symposia, podcasts, journal clubs, and an antimicrobial stewardship certificate program. While the primary audience is pharmacists, many educational activities are accredited for other healthcare disciplines as well.

  4. Infectious Diseases Society of America - Wikipedia

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    IDSA also promotes the establishment of antimicrobial stewardship programs and integration of good stewardship practices in every health care facility across the United States and is working to eliminate inappropriate uses of antibiotics in food, animals and other aspects of agriculture. [15]

  5. Antimicrobial resistance - Wikipedia

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    The antimicrobial stewardship program will also provide pharmacists with the knowledge to educate patients that antibiotics will not work for a virus for example. [ 94 ] Excessive antimicrobial use has become one of the top contributors to the evolution of antimicrobial resistance.

  6. Pharmacovigilance Programme of India - Wikipedia

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    The Pharmacovigilance Program makes these reports itself, but ideally, such reports could originate from any clinic. [3] The Pharmacovigilance Programme seeks to encourage a culture and social expectation of reporting drug problems. [3] One of the successes of the program was detecting adverse effects of people in India using carbamazepine.

  7. Multiple drug resistance - Wikipedia

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    Multiple drug resistance (MDR), multidrug resistance or multiresistance is antimicrobial resistance shown by a species of microorganism to at least one antimicrobial drug in three or more antimicrobial categories. [1] Antimicrobial categories are classifications of antimicrobial agents based on their mode of action and specific to target ...

  8. List of antibiotic-resistant bacteria - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of bacteria on a "Mega-Plate" petri dish A list of antibiotic resistant bacteria is provided below. These bacteria have shown antibiotic resistance (or antimicrobial resistance). Gram positive Clostridioides difficile Clostridioides difficile is a nosocomial pathogen that causes diarrheal disease worldwide. Diarrhea caused by C. difficile can be life-threatening. Infections are ...

  9. Infection prevention and control - Wikipedia

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    A subsidiary aspect of infection control involves preventing the spread of antimicrobial-resistant organisms such as MRSA. This in turn connects to the discipline of antimicrobial stewardship —limiting the use of antimicrobials to necessary cases, as increased usage inevitably results in the selection and dissemination of resistant organisms.