Steiros Infection Control Consulting
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Antibiotic Stewardship
Education

Purpose

Antibiotic stewardship is designed to optimize antimicrobial therapy administered to hospitalized
patients, to ensure cost-effective therapy and improve patients' outcome while containing bacterial
resistance.

Current data on the development of effective programs, including guidelines for their implementation,
have demonstrated some efficacy and controversies are reviewed.
Hospital Aquired Infections
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Recent Findings

Guidelines have been recently issued for the
development and implementation of active
antibiotic stewardship programs in hospitals.

A multidisciplinary team including at least an
infectious disease physician and a clinical
pharmacist is required. Multiple strategies are
available, including prospective audit with
feedback to the provider, education and
antimicrobial restriction.

Interventions have shown a positive effect on
optimization of antimicrobial use, reduced costs
and bacterial resistance, with studies showing
improvement in patient outcomes.

Summary

Combined with the Steiros Algorithm®, antibiotic stewardship can help contain antimicrobial resistance. Studies demonstrating
improvement of patients' outcomes are needed to increase acceptance by a broader audience of physicians.  A proactive strategy of
prospective auditing with direct counsels and feedback to the prescriber, ensuring systematic reassessment of ongoing therapy
appears most useful.
antibiotic stewardship
antibiotic resistant infections
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