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START (Stewardship Tactics for Antimicrobial Resistance Trends)
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Center for Independent Healthcare Education
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2.00 |
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Complimentary |
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03/01/2009 |
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03/01/2010 |
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Schering-Plough Corporation
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AMCP
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Description:
We are entering a period when antimicrobial stewardship programs are of critical importance. Until recently, the focus has been chiefly on patient outcomes, safety, and cost containment. However, it is likely in the decade to come that reducing or stabilizing levels of antimicrobial resistance will be paramount.
Antimicrobial stewardship initiatives require a multidisciplinary team of health care professionals. Through its combined efforts, this team can devise effective strategies for changing and directing antimicrobial use at hospitals and other health care institutions. Concern about resistance is worldwide, but problem solving begins at the local level, since resistant microbes, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, occur in individual communities and spread outward. The team members' responsibilities extend to initiating stewardship programs and driving their acceptance. A unified, multidisciplinary team that includes physicians, pharmacists, nurses, and case managers will represent the vanguard in our battle against antimicrobial resistance.
Appropriate management of hospitalized community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) patients through effective antimicrobial stewardship programs has many benefits, not the least of which is the reduction of morbidity and mortality associated with the disease. The multidisciplinary team responsible for treating the hospitalized CAP patient, including the infectious diseases specialist, the clinical pharmacist, and other team members, should serve as passionate advocates for appropriate antimicrobial use.
ACPE Universal Activity Number: 473-999-09-003-H01-P
This supplement is supported by an educational grant from Schering-Plough Corporation. |
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