Early Switch to Oral Antibiotics May Work for Brain Abscess, Review Finds
A systematic review and meta-analysis of five retrospective cohorts found that shorter intravenous antibiotic exposure before an oral switch was ...
Tag: Antimicrobial Stewardship
Follow-Up Vancomycin Drug Monitoring Linked to Lower Kidney Injury Risk in Japanese Claims Study
A retrospective Japanese claims database study of 492 adults found follow-up vancomycin therapeutic drug monitoring within one week was associated ...
Nursing as a systems profession in One Health: opportunities across the Quadripartite action tracks
A new Debate article maps four recurring nursing functions across the six Quadripartite One Health action tracks and argues they ...
Scoping review maps antimicrobial stewardship in LMIC tertiary hospitals
A scoping review of 12 studies found substantial variability in how antimicrobial stewardship programmes are implemented in tertiary hospitals across ...
Early Antibiotics Fail to Lower Death Risk in Palestinian ICU Sepsis Patients
A retrospective cohort study of 297 ICU patients with sepsis at two Palestinian government hospitals found that early antibiotic administration ...
Short-Course Antibiotics for Neonatal Sepsis: Evidence Too Thin to Say
A meta-analysis of three small randomized trials finds the evidence on short-course versus standard-course antibiotics for neonatal sepsis too imprecise ...
Veterinary antimicrobial prescribing tracks diagnosis in Bhutan district records
A retrospective analysis of nearly 9,000 veterinary visits in Mongar, Bhutan, found antimicrobial choice varied with recorded diagnosis, while course-completion ...
What Blocks Better Antibiotic Use for Suspected UTIs in Aged Care Homes
A systematic review of 12 studies identifies the barriers and enablers to implementing antimicrobial stewardship for suspected urinary tract infections ...
Deaths from drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Pakistan fell 41% over three decades
A Global Burden of Disease 2021 analysis finds that age-standardised mortality attributable to antimicrobial-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Pakistan dropped by ...
Legal gaps leave Nigeria’s antimicrobial resistance controls unenforced, review finds
A review identifies five legal and regulatory barriers to antimicrobial resistance control in Nigeria and proposes a reform framework for ...
Hospital Penicillin Allergy Delabeling Works Best With Direct Oral Challenge, Review Finds, But Evidence Is Fragmented
A systematic review of nine hospital-based studies finds that penicillin allergy delabeling interventions appear safe and locally effective, with direct ...
High Antibiotic Resistance Found in Skin Infection Bacteria in Ibb City, Yemen
A study of 103 wound swabs from five hospitals in Ibb City, Yemen, found very high antibiotic resistance among bacteria ...
Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance in Tanzania Finds Gaps Between Data and Care
A scoping review of Tanzanian antimicrobial resistance surveillance finds high resistance among key pathogens but persistent gaps in translating surveillance ...
Most Swiss healthcare workers worry about antibiotic resistance but few see their own role in fighting it
A survey of 1,505 Swiss healthcare workers found widespread concern about antibiotic resistance nationally but far less about their own ...
Resistant Staphylococcus Dominates Bloodstream Infections in Northern Iran Hospitals
A three-year retrospective study of 792 positive blood cultures from two tertiary hospitals in northern Iran found coagulase-negative staphylococci were ...
Nearly half of malaria patients in Ugandan hospitals got antibiotics against guidelines
A review of 1,092 patient records from nine Ugandan regional referral hospitals found that 42.5 percent of hospitalized patients with ...
AI Shows Promise for Stone-Linked Urinary Infections, But Validation Lags
A narrative review finds artificial intelligence tools for stone-associated urinary infection are promising but predominantly retrospective and lacking external validation.
Weak Regulation and Drug Shortages Drive Uncontrolled Antibiotic Use in Southern Pakistan
A qualitative study of nearly twenty healthcare providers in Khairpur Mirs, Pakistan, identifies political, regulatory, commercial, workforce and financial factors ...
Sepsis Bundles Are a Safety Floor, Not the Finish Line, Commentary Argues
A new commentary argues that sepsis bundles should serve as a standardized safety floor for time-critical care, with treatment afterward ...
Antimicrobial stewardship cuts drug costs in septic surgery without raising mortality
A retrospective before-after study at a Hungarian septic surgery unit found a multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship program cut drug procurement costs ...
