A real-time antimicrobial stewardship intervention may increase early switches from intravenous to oral antibiotics for nonstaphylococcal bloodstream infections, without changing clinical outcomes.

Antimicrobial stewardship programs were beneficial in improving clinical protocol adherence among patients with in-hospital pneumonia.

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 antimicrobial stewardship program at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore was shown to be cost-efficient and effective over a seven-year study period, according to a study published ...

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 ...

Hospital-acquired pneumonia remains a major ICU threat as new diagnostics and tailored treatment strategies reshape care.

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

Dar es Salaam. Health experts in Tanzania are being called upon to spearhead action against the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which continues to undermine the effectiveness of life ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) arises when microorganisms, particularly bacteria, evolve mechanisms against antimicrobial agents to survive. These mechanisms may arise through either spontaneous ...

The recently released draft of updated Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) guidelines from Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a silent crisis where microbes evolve to withstand the medicines meant to treat them, ...