Quantcast
Channel: antimicrobial stewardship – Reflections on Infection Prevention and Control
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 14 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Online antimicrobial stewardship course

I found out about a new free online antimicrobial stewardship course yesterday. The course is a collaboration between the the University of Dundee and the British Society for Antimicrobial...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

What do nurses have to do with anti-infective stewardship?

Nurses are usually non-prescribers, so that means that anti-infective stewardship is the domain of the prescribing doctors and pharmacists, right? Wrong! Nurses have an enormous and enormously...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

ESPAUR 2016: an early Christmas present

I am just getting around to reading (well detail-scanning the exec summary) of the ESPAUR report. My main reflection is what a fantastic resource this reporting stream offers us: to have freely...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The English C. difficile miracle: is it all about fluoroquinolones?

A new Lancet ID study suggests that restriction of fluoroquinolone usage has been the main driver of the national reduction in C. difficile infection in England. This paper is challenging in terms of...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The anatomy of a good blog

ICHE recently published an unusual article (which other article has ‘the world wide web’ as their setting) on blogging in ID and clinical micro. The article reviewed around 100 blogs and rated them...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The antibiotic course has had its day?

In a recent BMJ article, Llewelyn et al. argue that the old dogma of completing a prescribed course of antibiotics to prevent antibiotic-resistance is a myth, not based on evidence.  Actually the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

CPE guidelines galore: ECDC and ACSQH join the party

I recently posted on the WHO CPE guidelines. A couple of people have alerted me to two other recently published guidelines, one from ECDC, and the other from Australian Commission  on Safety and...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Using qualitative methods to understand determinants of antibiotic prescribing

A couple of new studies provide insight into determinants of antibiotic prescribing using qualitative methodology. A systematic review in the Journal of Hospital Infection highlights the tension...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Can we halve GNBSI? The crowd say no…!

I participated in another pro-con debate recently up against fellow Reflections blogger Martin Kiernan during a Webber Teleclass. The question for the debate was “Can we halve Gram-negative BSI?” (I...

View Article


Setting our IPC priorities for the next 3-5 years

In honour of Infection Prevention and Control Week (#IIPW) 2021, I thought I put up a quick post based on a talk I did on Friday last week about the ‘Future of Healthcare and of Infection Prevention...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 14 View Live