Practical Approaches to Expand Antimicrobial Stewardship in Community Hospitals

Community hospitals have unique antimicrobial stewardship challenges, but there are many practical strategies for ...

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Diagnostic Accuracy and the Perils of Pan-Culture in Infectious Disease

Diagnostic accuracy is the “holy grail” of infectious disease and key to avoiding inappropriate ...

MAY 20, 2022

Antibiotic Use Study Informs Hospital-Based Stewardship Program

A medication-use evaluation of two antibiotics in a Florida Veterans Affairs hospital found a significant reduction ...

JULY 8, 2021

Treating IAIs in Patients at High Risk for Poor Outcomes

Melanie Olesky, PhD, discusses an antibiotic study presented at the 2019 annual MAD-ID (Making a Difference in ...

JUNE 4, 2019

Xerava Shown Effective in High-Risk Patients With cIAIs

Xerava was effective in treating patients with complicated intra-abdominal infectionswho had characteristics that ...

JUNE 4, 2019

Grants and Other Opportunities Through MAD-ID

MAD-ID and bioMérieux are offering an antimicrobial stewardship research grant. They are soliciting study ...

MAY 12, 2019

Make a Difference: Stewardship Training Program

Online lessons are completed as per the learner’s own pace, and a practical component is completed at the ...

JANUARY 23, 2019

The NINJA in the Hospital

Medications are among the many factors that cause acute kidney injury in the hospital, but drug-related AKI could ...

AUGUST 22, 2018

Better Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing Ahead

The MIC test is an old method for determining a bacterium’s susceptibility to an antibiotic, but in this era ...

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Eliminating CLABSIs

This video explains the impact one measure can have to make care safer for all patients.

MARCH 12, 2017

Abx Stewardship Extended to ED, Surgery

ERs and Surgical suites can be the last bastions of antibiotic stewardship programs.

JULY 11, 2016

Invasive Fungal infections Demand Early Action

Antifungals differ in their spectrum of activity, so matching the right drug with the right organism helps combat ...

JUNE 30, 2016