Antimicrobial Stewardship and Use in Healthcare Setting
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 October 2024 | Viewed by 4005
Special Issue Editors
Interests: AMR; HCAI; emerging infection; TB; HIV
Interests: antimicrobial stewardship; antimicrobial resistance; professional education and training; behavioural science; qualitative research; public health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a leading cause of death worldwide. Antibiotic misuse, including under-use, overuse, and inappropriate use, has been identified as a major driver of AMR. Antibiotic stewardship campaigns and interventions have been employed across the healthcare sector to help facilitate appropriate prescribing, with varying degrees of success.
This Special Issue aims to showcase a variety of stewardship initiatives undertaken across the healthcare setting including stewardship campaigns, interventions and programmes. We welcome original research, review articles, case studies and opinion papers. Topics of particular interest include:
- Antimicrobial stewardship across various healthcare settings including general practice, care home, dentistry, hospital settings and private practice;
- The landscape of antimicrobial stewardship post-COVID-19;
- Implementing antimicrobial stewardship strategies at a local, regional, national or global level;
- Antimicrobial stewardship integration with electronic medical records;
- Multidisciplinary approaches to antimicrobial stewardship in healthcare settings;
- The impact of antimicrobial stewardship;
- hospital prevalence of multi-drug resistant organisms/resistance trends
- adverse events e.g., CDI
- other novel markers of success
- Antmicrobial stewardship and behavioural change;
- Antimicrobial stewardship and the general public;
- Embedding antimicrobial stewardship across the healthcare setting;
- Antimicrobial stewardship approaches including diagnostic stewardship, education and training, prescribing strategies, and point of care tests;
- Syndrome-/organism-based antibiotic stewardship;
- Novel approaches to antibiotic stewardship;
- Antimicrobial stewardship—what is a success?
Dr. Colin S. Brown
Dr. Donna M. Lecky
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- antimicrobial stewardship
- antibiotic
- behavior
- decision support
- antimicrobial resistance
- knowledge
- education
- impact
- implementation