Tag: Antimicrobial Stewardship

A new commentary argues that sepsis bundles should serve as a standardized safety floor for time-critical care, with treatment afterward ...

A retrospective before-after study at a Hungarian septic surgery unit found a multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship program cut drug procurement costs ...

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 36 studies estimates that roughly one in three carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clinical isolates is ...

Researchers propose a framework of translational plausibility to argue that honey's clinical value lies in topical wound treatments rather than ...

A meta-analysis of 31 studies estimated that 58.6% of hospitalised patients in the Middle East received antimicrobials, with wide national ...

A retrospective study of 1,014,368 outpatient prescriptions found that antibiotic use at one Ghanaian regional hospital rose from 1.87 to ...

A Dubai hospital interrupted time-series study associated pharmacist-led post-prescription review with a rise in appropriate community-acquired pneumonia antimicrobial treatment from ...

A single-center study of 7,385 orthopedic-service culture-positive records found diverse pathogens and downward unadjusted trends in MRSA and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella ...

An interview-led system-dynamics study in one Botswana neonatal unit mapped four reinforcing feedback structures associated with infection-prevention and antimicrobial-stewardship challenges.

An editorial in Intensive Care Medicine highlights a DIANA study sub-analysis of 845 ICU patients with microbiologically confirmed infections in ...

A nationwide study of more than 76,000 bloodstream infection isolates collected across 72 Chinese hospitals between 2014 and 2023 documents ...

A single-patient case report documents recurrent bacterial and fungal urinary tract infections in an infant with neurogenic bladder after congenital ...

A retrospective single-center analysis of 760 blood cultures from patients with sepsis found positive growth in 25.8% of samples and ...

A three-month retrospective registry study of nine Indian ICUs found 682.5 antimicrobial days of therapy per 1,000 patient days, frequent ...

A retrospective single-center study found that smaller declines or increases in white blood cell count around mNGS reporting were associated ...

A 2026 evidence review finds that laboratory automation and AI improve speed, workload and some technical tasks, but broad patient ...

A Karbala survey of 360 health professionals found generally favorable stewardship attitudes, uneven self-reported practices, and only 26.4% overall awareness ...

A new correspondence in BMC Infectious Diseases links the COVID-19 pandemic to a marked rise in antimicrobial-resistant bloodstream infections across ...

Metagenomic sequencing of matched liver transplant donor–recipient pairs outperformed culture, uncovered possible donor-derived pathogen transmission, and informed antimicrobial therapy in ...

A comprehensive review in IMA Fungus shows that fungal defense mechanisms and antifungal resistance evolve across clinical, agricultural, and environmental ...