Among the busy halls of emergency departments nationwide, a silent battle against antimicrobial resistance is unfolding. A recent analysis of more than 152 million ED visits nationwide found 27.6% ...

Dr. Spivak is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. She established and serves as Co-Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs at University of Utah Health and the ...

A survey of Children’s Hospital Association hospitals finds only 38 percent of member hospitals have an antimicrobial stewardship program in place, according to a study published in Infection Control ...

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 ...

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 . [Editor’s note: Click here to read our recent feature on ID care in rural America.] In 2019, CMS announced a ...

Antibiotic resistance is often framed as a hospital problem, but a growing body of evidence shows that rivers, soils, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . There was no difference in the antimicrobial stewardship intervention acceptance rate based on the gender of the ...

The guidelines will help clinicians determine whether patients seeking care via telehealth and virtual visits need urine tests or empiric antibiotics.

USAID-funded TRANSFORM project has united 26 organizations in antimicrobial use stewardship in an effort to combat antimicrobial resistance MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Antimicrobial use in animals ...

Antimicrobial stewardship programs continue to demonstrate value in today's healthcare systems and are necessary now more than ever. Rates of antibiotic resistance are increasing with few new ...