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 ...

Antibiotics are overprescribed or inappropriately prescribed between 30 and 50 percent of the time, according to a recent study, but the implementation of antibiotic stewardship programs in hospital ...

The threat of increased incidence of antibiotic-resistant strains is well understood in the healthcare industry, creating urgency to combat antimicrobial resistance on the local, regional and national ...

Antibiotic stewardship is a key component of infection prevention, and may be quite challenging as antibiotic stewardship varies across the continuum of care, says Phenelle Segal, RN CIC, owner of ...

WADENA — At its recent annual meeting, the Minnesota Hospital Association, Astera Health based in Wadena was an award recipient in the Quality and Safety Improvements category for its Antibiotic ...

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 ...

The misuse of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic points to a need for provider systems to shore up their antimicrobial stewardship programs, according to experts at the Centers for Disease ...

A multifactorial training program for health professionals is capable of halving the use of antibiotics against urinary tract infections (UTIs) while maintaining patient safety, according to a study ...

The threat of antimicrobial resistance — the ability of organisms to defeat the very drugs designed to kill them — is well known in modern medicine. It is the reason infections are becoming harder to ...

There is little evidence to guide the design and implementation of an antibiotic stewardship program in the clinical practice of dermatology. Rising rates of antibiotic resistance, damage to the ...