SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Closing the Safety Gap in Outpatient ABX Stewardship


Originally published by our sister publication Pharmacy Practice News

By Karen Blum

Outpatient antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) efforts at many medical centers took a back seat during the COVID-19 pandemic, but now is a good time to revamp them, presenters said at the 2022 ACCP Global Conference on Clinical Pharmacy, in San Francisco. Pharmacists can play a key role in areas ripe with incorrect use or overuse of antibiotics, such as urinary tract infections (UTIs) and Clostridioides difficile