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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. Antibiotic sensitivity testing - Wikipedia

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    [1] [9] The results of antimicrobial susceptibility tests performed during a given time period can be compiled, usually in the form of a table, to form an antibiogram. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] Antibiograms help the clinician to select the best empiric antimicrobial therapy based on the local resistance patterns until the laboratory test results are available.

  4. Antimicrobial resistance - Wikipedia

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    The goals of antimicrobial stewardship are to help practitioners pick the right drug at the right dose and duration of therapy while preventing misuse and minimizing the development of resistance. Stewardship interventions may reduce the length of stay by an average of slightly over 1 day while not increasing the risk of death. [103]

  5. Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

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    Australia's quality use of medicines (QUM) program, including antimicrobial stewardship; health care-related infection prevention and management efforts, including the National Hand Hygiene Initiative; clinical trial safety and reporting programs; These programs all broadly sit under one specific NSQHS Standard.

  6. Talk:Antimicrobial stewardship - Wikipedia

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    AMS is defined right at the beginning as a "set of coordinated strategies to improve the use of antimicrobial medications". So that in and of itself is not a AMS program (ASP) yet. I see it as a thing in flux- it starts with AMS committees or AMS teams, and when there is institutional support, it morphs into a program.

  7. McFarland standards - Wikipedia

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    McFarland standards. No. 0.5, 1 and 2. In microbiology, McFarland standards are used as a reference to adjust the turbidity of bacterial suspensions so that the number of bacteria will be within a given range to standardize microbial testing.

  8. Antimicrobial spectrum - Wikipedia

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    The antimicrobial spectrum of an antibiotic can be determined by testing its antimicrobial activity against a wide range of microbes in vitro. Nonetheless, the range of microorganisms which an antibiotic can kill or inhibit in vivo may not always be the same as the antimicrobial spectrum based on data collected in vitro. [2] [5]

  9. Antibiotic prophylaxis - Wikipedia

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    Worldwide experience with antimicrobial prophylaxis in surgery has proven to be effective and cost-efficient, both avoiding severe patient suffering while saving lives (provided the appropriate antibiotics have been carefully chosen and used to the best of current medical knowledge). [citation needed]