Tag Archives: Antimicrobial stewardship programs

August 2019—Antibiotic treatment of sepsis patients often has to rely on clinical observation and educated guesswork as clinicians wait for a culture to determine whether the infection is bacterial, viral, or possibly fungal.

February 2017—In a context where the lack of drugs against resistant bacterial pathogens will continue and antimicrobial prescriptions are highly complex, effective antibiotic stewardship programs are strongly needed. In the U.S., the CDC and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services highly recommend, while the Joint Commission requires, that all hospitals and nursing care centers have antimicrobial stewardship programs, effective January 2017.