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The escalating threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) necessitates impactful, reproducible, and scalable antimicrobial stewardship strategies.

Given the complexity and nuance needed to make antimicrobial prescribing decisions, metrics aiming to assess these decisions can be complex in method, require resource investment for measurement, a

Antimicrobials are commonly prescribed and often misunderstood.

DASON is pleased to announce that we have passed both Antimicrobial Use (AU) and 

Urine cultures collected from catheterized patients have a high likelihood of false-positive results due to colonization.

The term “hospital epidemiology” was not in my lexicon when I began my career in infectious diseases (ID) in 1977.

Sepsis guidelines recommend daily review to de-escalate or stop antibiotics in appropriate patients.

Policies that promote conversion of antibiotics from intravenous to oral route administration are considered “low hanging fruit” for hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs.

The administration of approved antifungals via unapproved formulations or administration routes (such as aerosol, direct injection, irrigation, topical formulation and antifungal-impregnated orthopedic beads or cement) may be resorted to in an attempt to optimize drug exposure while minimizing toxicities and/or drug interactions associated with conventional (systemic) administrations.

The impact of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: Management Bundle (SEP-1) Core Measure on overall antibacterial utilization is unknown.