As public officials continue to express concerns about the inappropriate use of antibiotics and the growth of drug-resistant superbugs, a new study finds that hospital stewardship programs can reduce ...

Some hospitals face challenges when implementing an antimicrobial stewardship program, and a new study has identified some of the key strategies to overcome them. Moving away from a top-down structure ...

Documentation of fiscal and clinical outcomes is required for sustainability of most antimicrobial stewardship programs. While studies have confirmed the positive effects of antimicrobial stewardship ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Approximately 700,000 people die every year from antibiotic-resistant infections, and this number is projected ...

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 ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers found that the responsibility for antimicrobial stewardship programs at Veterans Affairs hospitals ...

Antimicrobial stewardship programs are essential to the continued viability of antimicrobials as therapeutic entities. Clinicians are already encountering patients with untreatable bacterial ...