Southcoast Hospitals Group has earned a two-year redesignation as an Antimicrobial Stewardship Center of Excellence from the ...

An antibiotic stewardship program was associated with a 50% reduction in antibiotic prescribing at clinical visits, according to a recent Northwestern Medicine study published in JAMA Network Open.

The percentage of patients who were discharged with an antibiotic prescription was at its highest level during the first year of the study period, with 24% in 2013, and dropped to 20% in 2016, the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As I head into my 25th year of working as a clinical infectious diseases pharmacist, one of the most important ...

Credit: Getty Images Guillermo (Memo) Sanchez, PA-C, MPH, MSHS, discusses how antibiotic stewardship tracks antibiotic prescribing and improves appropriate use, reduces unnecessary use, and ensures ...

Hospital-based systems-level sepsis interventions in diagnostic testing, antimicrobial stewardship, and program ...

Researchers at Intermountain Healthcare have conducted a first-of-its-kind survey to identify and stratify antimicrobial stewardship programs into four different groups—a first step toward studying ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After initiating the antibiotic stewardship bundle, the prescribing rate decreased from 21.7% to 11.2%. Repeat ...

In early 2021, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and NORC at the University of Chicago showed that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic ...

A CDC-led investigation identified 12 deaths linked to ceftriaxone injections at healthcare facilities in 18 states over 11 ...

Researchers have conducted a landmark survey to identify and stratify antimicrobial stewardship programs into four different groups -- a first step toward studying the effectiveness of these models to ...