[HTML][HTML] Core elements for implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in Korean general hospitals

HS Cheong, KH Park, HB Kim, SW Kim… - Infection & …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Currently, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to global public health. The
antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) has been proposed as an important approach to …

[HTML][HTML] Guidelines on implementing antimicrobial stewardship programs in Korea

YK Yoon, KT Kwon, SJ Jeong, C Moon… - Infection & …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
These guidelines were developed as a part of the 2021 Academic R&D Service Project of
the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency in response to requests from healthcare …

Eight-year experience of antimicrobial stewardship program and the trend of carbapenem use at a tertiary acute-care hospital in Japan—the impact of postprescription …

T Akazawa, Y Kusama, H Fukuda… - Open forum …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objective We implemented a stepwise antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP). This study
evaluated the effect of each intervention and the overall economic impact on carbapenem …

Promotion of antimicrobial stewardship following issuance of the antimicrobial resistance national action plan in Japan: A systematic review of 2016–2020

H Honda, T Goto, Y Uehara, A Takamatsu - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a global threat with the potential to
cause a significant healthcare burden. In 2016, the Japanese Government issued the …

Impact of the multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship team intervention focusing on carbapenem de‐escalation: A single‐centre and interrupted time series …

A Suzuki, M Maeda, T Yokoe… - … Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Background As a result of the constant increase in carbapenem resistance amongst gram‐
negative bacteria in several countries, the inappropriate use of carbapenems must be …

Machine learning for the prediction of antimicrobial stewardship intervention in hospitalized patients receiving broad-spectrum agents

RJ Bystritsky, A Beltran, AT Young, A Wong… - Infection Control & …, 2020 - cambridge.org
Objective: A significant proportion of inpatient antimicrobial prescriptions are inappropriate.
Post-prescription review with feedback has been shown to be an effective means of …

Trends in inpatient antimicrobial consumption using days of therapy and days of antibiotic spectrum coverage: A nationwide claims database study in Japan

N Kanda, H Ohbe, T Jo, H Matsui, K Fushimi… - Journal of Infection and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction Days of antibiotic spectrum coverage (DASC), a novel metric for both
antimicrobial volume and spectrum, was proposed to measure inpatient antimicrobial …

Impact of implementing a non-restrictive antibiotic stewardship program in an emergency department: a four-year quasi-experimental prospective study

A Savoldi, F Foschi, F Kreth, BP Gladstone, E Carrara… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Antibiotic resistance is increasing worldwide. The implementation of antibiotic stewardship
programmes (ASPs) is of utmost importance to optimize antibiotic use in order to prevent …

Barriers to adherence to antimicrobial stewardship postprescription review and feedback for broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents: a nested case-control study

A Takamatsu, K Yao, S Murakami… - Open Forum …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Postprescription review and feedback (PPRF) is one of the most common
strategies in antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) intervention. However …

Postprescription review with threat of infectious disease consultation and sustained reduction in meropenem use over four years

NS Mani, KF Lan, R Jain, C Bryson-Cahn… - Clinical Infectious …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Background Following a meropenem shortage, we implemented a postprescription review
with feedback (PPRF) in November 2015 with mandatory infectious disease (ID) …