Antimicrobial Stewardship Project

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Antimicrobial resistance is a critical global public health issue, and antimicrobial stewardship strategies are key to curtailing the problem. CIDRAP's Antimicrobial Stewardship Project provides current, accurate, and comprehensive information on the topic and works to build an online community to address leading issues.

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ASP Monthly Quiz

Test your stewardship knowledge! This month's quiz is based on a study of patients with sepsis that found that broad-spectrum antibiotics were often administered to patients without a resistant infection. Take the May quiz!

Women in Mali with bottles of antibiotics

Antibiotic use rising for sick kids in low-resource nations

Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News

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May 26, 2020

Antibiotic use among sick children under the age of 5 increased 17% from 2005 to 2017.

COVID-19 and AMS

For the latest on antimicrobial therapy and stewardship in COVID-19 patients, please visit CIDRAP's new COVID-19 and AMS page. The page features guidance and tools on treating bacterial and fungal co-infections in COVID-19 patients and commentaries on the connections between COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance.

Upcoming ASP webinar

Join CIDRAP-ASP on Friday, May 29, at 1:00pm CST for a webinar on improving antibiotic use in ICUs. The webinar will be presented by Kavita Trivedi, MD, of Trivedi Consults, Belinda Ostrowsky, MD, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Phyllis Silver, former director of the Partnership for Quality Care.

ASP Clinical Tools

Looking for clinical tools for implementing or enhancing antimicrobial stewardship programs? Check out the ASP Clinical Tools page, our regularly updated database of guidelines, administrative policies and procedures, dosing protocols, and educational tools for different clinical settings.

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NEWS AND PERSPECTIVE

Women in Mali with bottles of antibiotics

Antibiotic use rising for sick kids in low-resource nations

Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News

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May 26, 2020

Antibiotic use among sick children under the age of 5 increased 17% from 2005 to 2017.

Review finds test antibiotics unreliable for diagnosing TB

Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News

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May 20, 2020

A long-standing practice of using antibiotics to test for TB is unreliable for diagnosing the disease.

ICU patient transfer

COVID-19 presents antibiotic stewardship with challenges, opportunities

Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News

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May 19, 2020

"The hardest thing to do as a doctor is nothing, even if nothing is the right answer."

Researcher with petri dish culture

GAO finds holes in federal response to antibiotic resistance

Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News

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May 01, 2020

Among the challenges highlighted in the report are limited data and lack of timely information.

Childhood vaccination

Study highlights impact of childhood vaccines on antibiotic use

Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News

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Apr 30, 2020

The study provides clear evidence of the power of childhood vaccines on reducing the antibiotic resistance burden.

Sepsis study highlights risks of overly broad antibiotic treatment

Chris Dall | News Reporter | CIDRAP News

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Apr 21, 2020

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are often given to patients not infected with drug-resistant bacteria.

ASP Scan (Weekly)

May 29, 2020

Drug-resistant bloodstream infections
Inhaled antibiotic for cystic fibrosis infections
Antibiotics in Australian nursing homes
Post-surgical antibiotics
UK report on food-animal antibiotics
Antibiotics in dairy farming
Antibiotic prescribing in French kids
Antibiotic use in Welsh primary care

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