The percentage of patients who were discharged with an antibiotic prescription was at its highest level during the first year of the study period, with 24% in 2013, and dropped to 20% in 2016, the ...

(HealthDay News) — An antibiotic stewardship program with pharmacist participation can promote improved antibiotic use and decrease costs in clean urological procedures, according to a study published ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A safety training program for antibiotic stewardship was associated with reductions in antibiotic use and urine ...

Antibiotics are overprescribed or inappropriately prescribed between 30 and 50 percent of the time, according to a recent study, but the implementation of antibiotic stewardship programs in hospital ...

Antimicrobial drug stewardship has been shown to help reduce microbial resistance and the spread of infections from multi-drug resistant organisms. A new study has shown how one such program may have ...

The threat of increased incidence of antibiotic-resistant strains is well understood in the healthcare industry, creating urgency to combat antimicrobial resistance on the local, regional and national ...

In early 2021, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and NORC at the University of Chicago showed that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Safety Program for Improving Antibiotic Use ...

WADENA — At its recent annual meeting, the Minnesota Hospital Association, Astera Health based in Wadena was an award recipient in the Quality and Safety Improvements category for its Antibiotic ...

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An antimicrobial stewardship program at the University of Maryland Medical Center resulted in a 45.8 percent decrease in utilization costs in seven years, according to a study published in Infection ...

A pediatric long-term care facility in New York initiated an antibiotic-stewardship program to regulate the unnecessary prescribing of antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance remains a persistent challenge ...

The CDC has developed a risk-adjusted benchmarking measure for antibiotic use in acute care hospitals called the Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR). The SAAR compares the actual ...