The Healthcare Infection Prevention Advisory Group (HIPAG) will offer evidence-backed advisory expertise on infection ...

Pediatric primary care practices cut the rate of inappropriate antibiotic prescribing by nearly half due to an antimicrobial stewardship program, according to a study in Journal of the American ...

Despite research showing that antimicrobial stewardship programs improve patient care and reduce antimicrobial resistance, a considerable proportion of hospitals and long-term care facilities have not ...

Since the Infectious Diseases Society of America published guidelines promoting antimicrobial stewardship programs in 2007, average antibiotic use has decreased significantly in children’s hospitals, ...

1 Guidelines were developed for the empirical treatment of common infectious diseases. 2 Criteria were developed for iv.-to-oral conversion of levofloxacin. Patients receiving iv. levofloxacin were ...

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Increasing numbers of patients are using the emergency department (ED) for acute healthcare needs. Infectious diseases such as urinary tract infections and skin and soft tissue infections (cellulitis) ...

(HealthDay News) – Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) that use health care epidemiologists (HEs) and infection preventionists (IPs) have a crucial role to play in the effort to combat health ...

For many years, antimicrobial stewardship has been an increasingly hot topic, and for good reason – antimicrobial resistance, classified by the World Health Organization as “one of the biggest threats ...

Antibiotic resistance is a national and global public health crisis. Each year in the United States (US), at least 2 million people become infected with antibiotic-resistant bacteria and at least ...

More than 300 clinicians, researchers, and decision makers from across Canada gathered in Toronto on November 18–19 for the ...

The US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) published several new wild bird avian ...