Antimicrobial Stewardship
"Antimicrobial Stewardship" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Programs and guidelines for selecting optimal ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS regimens in an effort to maintain antibiotic efficacy, reduce CROSS INFECTION related to ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE while managing satisfactory clinical and economic outcomes.
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D000073602
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N04.452.706.477.400.500 N04.761.879.300.500 N05.700.900.300.500
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Antimicrobial Stewardship" by people in Profiles.
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Policy brief: Optimising antimicrobial usage in paediatric inpatient hospital settings. S Afr Med J. 2024 Apr 18; 114(4):e1296.
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A content analysis of two african medical schools' antibiotic stewardship curricula. Educ Health (Abingdon). 2023 Jan-Apr; 36(1):4-13.
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Educational antimicrobial stewardship programs in medical schools: a scoping review. JBI Evid Synth. 2021 08 13; 19(11):2906-2928.
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A pharmacist-led prospective antibiotic stewardship intervention improves compliance to community-acquired pneumonia guidelines in 39 public and private hospitals across South Africa. Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2020 Dec; 56(6):106189.
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A multisectoral investigation of a neonatal unit outbreak of Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteraemia at a regional hospital in Gauteng Province, South Africa. S Afr Med J. 2020 Jul 29; 110(8):783-790.
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Collateral damage of the COVID-19 pandemic: Exacerbation of antimicrobial resistance and disruptions to antimicrobial stewardship programmes? S Afr Med J. 2020 06 02; 110(7):572-573.
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Educational antimicrobial stewardship programs in medical schools: a scoping review protocol. JBI Evid Synth. 2020 05; 18(5):1028-1035.
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National Neonatal Sepsis Task Force launch: Supporting infection prevention and surveillance, outbreak investigation and antimicrobial stewardship in neonatal units in South Africa. S Afr Med J. 2020 Apr 29; 110(5):360-363.
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A review of -multidrug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in a neonatal unit in Johannesburg, South Africa. BMC Pediatr. 2019 09 07; 19(1):320.
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Antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic stewardship programs in the ICU: insistence and persistence in the fight against resistance. A position statement from ESICM/ESCMID/WAAAR round table on multi-drug resistance. Intensive Care Med. 2018 02; 44(2):189-196.