Despite discussions at the national level about the need to integrate nurses into antibiotic stewardship (AS) activities, there are limited tools and resources for Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs, ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a new rule that will require nursing homes to have an antibiotic stewardship program. The rule is part of a package of changes to ...

The Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide (the Guide) provides toolkits to help nursing homes optimize their use of antibiotics. This page provides information about antimicrobial stewardship ...

While this was a limitation, with an intervention we were still able to observe differences in time to discontinuation of antibiotics, total antibiotic duration, LOS, and total hospital costs.

AHRQ's Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide is a research-based resource that offers materials to help nursing homes improve antibiotic use and decrease harms caused by inappropriate ...

calling on all stakeholders to commit to stewardship efforts. The 40-page report outlines progress and challenges for antibiotic use in outpatient settings, nursing homes, and hospitals and describes ...

The primary outcome was time to discontinuation of antistaphylococcal antibiotics by the pharmacist intervention in patients with a positive blood culture for CoNS that was determined to be a ...

CHI Mercy Hospital is proud to announce that its Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) team has received the Platinum Honor Roll ...

Objectives To determine what barriers and facilitators to antibiotic stewardship exist within a healthcare facility. Setting 1300-bed tertiary care private hospital located in the state of Kerala, ...

Below are example sections from the JHH Guidelines for Antibiotic Use. Please read and accept the following disclaimer before downloading the examples. Access to the ...

Updates on the group working to advance the statutory regulation across all Australian jurisdictions of veterinary nurses and technologists, and new antimicrobial stewardship learning resources The ...