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  2. Antimicrobial stewardship - Wikipedia

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    Antimicrobial stewardship focuses on prescribers, be it physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner, on the prescription and the microorganism, if any. At a hospital, AMS can be organized in the form of an AMS committee that meets monthly.

  3. Outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy - Wikipedia

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    OPAT is being increasingly adopted as part of antimicrobial stewardship programs; it can reduce length of stay, costs and adverse events while improving quality of life. [2] OPAT can be administered in an outpatient facility (including a provider's office, infusion center or day hospital) or at a patient's residence using an infusion pump ...

  4. WHO AWaRe - Wikipedia

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    There was a marked rise in the consumption of antibiotics in the Watch category, while usage of certain antibiotics remained consistently high. These findings emphasized the imperative for vigilant antimicrobial stewardship to address evolving prescribing trends and combat resistance, thereby safeguarding patient health. [7]

  5. Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists - Wikipedia

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    SIDP offers educational activities focusing on infectious diseases pharmacotherapy and antimicrobial stewardship through a variety of formats, including live and enduring webinar programming, home study materials, and live sessions at the annual SIDP business meeting, which is held concurrently with IDWeek. [31]

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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]

  9. 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 ...