The voluntary program created a standardized mechanism for tracking antibiotic starts in the state's long-term care facilities.

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% ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Inspired by a Sunday homily about the “good steward,” McGowan and Gerding thought of antimicrobial stewardship ...

An Internet-based preapproval antimicrobial stewardship program can effectively reduce both the number of doses and the subsequent costs of restricted antimicrobials, according to a study in Infection ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beyond the Point: Learning From Outcomes After Inpatient Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy How Should We Manage the Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance in Patients With Cancer? An Oncological and ...