Stepwise Expansion of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs and Its Impact on Antibiotic Use and Resistance Rates at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Korea-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Stepwise Expansion of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs and Its Impact on Antibiotic Use and Resistance Rates at a Tertiary Care Hospital in Korea

Published:2022-06-29 Issue:3 Volume:10 Page:
ISSN:2165-0497
Container-title:Microbiology Spectrum
language:en
Short-container-title:Microbiol Spectr

Author:

Shin Dong Hoon¹,Kim Hyung-Sook²,Heo Eunjeong²,Shin Myoung-jin³,Kim Nak-Hyun¹,Lee Hyunju⁴^ORCID,Park Jeong Su⁵,Park Kyoung Un⁵,Jung Jongtak¹,Song Kyoung-Ho¹^ORCID,Kang Minsun⁶,Jung Jaehun⁶⁷,Kim Eu Suk¹^ORCID,Kim Hong Bin¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

2. Department of Pharmacy, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

3. Infection Control Center, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

4. Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

5. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

6. Artificial Intelligence and Big-Data Convergence Center, Gil Medical Center, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea

7. Department of Preventive Medicine, Gachon University College of Medicine, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Abstract

Antimicrobial stewardship programs aimed to optimize antibiotic use are difficult to implement in limited-resource settings. Our study indicates that stepwise implementation of core antimicrobial stewardship program elements was effective in reducing antibiotic use in a tertiary care hospital despite the lack of sufficient manpower.

Funder

Seoul National University Bundang Hospital

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Cell Biology,Microbiology (medical),Genetics,General Immunology and Microbiology,Ecology,Physiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/spectrum.00335-22

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