Implementing an Antibiotic Stewardship Program: Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

Overview

Journal Clin Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2016 Apr 16

PMID 27080992

Citations 976

Authors

Tamar F Barlam

Sara E Cosgrove

Lilian M Abbo

Conan MacDougall

Audrey N Schuetz

Edward J Septimus

Arjun Srinivasan

Timothy H Dellit

Yngve T Falck-Ytter

Neil O Fishman

Cindy W Hamilton

Timothy C Jenkins

Pamela A Lipsett

Preeti N Malani

Larissa S May

Gregory J Moran

Melinda M Neuhauser

Jason G Newland

Christopher A Ohl

Matthew H Samore

Susan K Seo

Kavita K Trivedi

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Abstract

Evidence-based guidelines for implementation and measurement of antibiotic stewardship interventions in inpatient populations including long-term care were prepared by a multidisciplinary expert panel of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. The panel included clinicians and investigators representing internal medicine, emergency medicine, microbiology, critical care, surgery, epidemiology, pharmacy, and adult and pediatric infectious diseases specialties. These recommendations address the best approaches for antibiotic stewardship programs to influence the optimal use of antibiotics.

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