Antimicrobial Stewardship: Where We've Come and Where We're Going, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America (Volume 37-4) (The Clinics: Internal Medicine, Volume 37-4) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0443130833 ISBN 13: 9780443130830

Publisher: Elsevier, 2023

Synopsis

In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Emily Sydnor Spivak and Sage Greenlee bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Antimicrobial Stewardship: Where We Have Come and Where We Are Going. Throughout the last decade, the field of antimicrobial stewardship  has undergone exponential growth due to heightened awareness of antimicrobial use and emerging multidrug-resistant organisms. Additionally, the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted systemic and persistent health disparities in the United States. In this issue, top experts provide a recap of the progress made over the last decade in antimicrobial stewardship and provide direction for next steps in this ever-growing field.

• Contains 12 practice-oriented topics including antimicrobial stewardship and pandemic preparedness: lessons learned from COVID-19; health equity considerations; antimicrobial stewardship at transitions of care; antimicrobial stewardship in immunocompromised populations; health system and tele-antimicrobial stewardship: the role of building networks; and more. 

• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on antimicrobial stewardship, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. 

• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0443130833
• ISBN 13: 9780443130830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Spivak MD MHS FIDSA Emily Sydnor, Greenlee PharmD BCIDP Sage B.