Overview
- The first text to consider Antimicrobial Stewardship across clinical environments
- Includes discussions of Antimicrobial Stewardship at the intersection of special populations
- Written by experts in infectious diseases, hospital epidemiology, and pharmacy
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The evolution of Antimicrobial Resistance is outpacing the ability to create novel antibiotics, which is proving to be a global problem in the fact of climate change, population growth, demographic shifts toward aging populations, emerging infections, and other crises. Therefore, clinicians are forced to use the existing antimicrobials more responsibly to preserve their longevity for generations to come. In a parallel vein, there has been a recent regulatory acknowledgement of the importance of prudent antimicrobial prescribing, mandating the implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship across all healthcare settings. This is harder to manage in a non-traditional setting, which include long-term care facilities, outpatient care clinics, urgent care centers, and others. Given the trends in patient care in these settings—particularly where the aging community is concerned—this is proving to be a growing problem. This is troublesome even for spaces that have university and large hospital affiliations.
There is a plethora of data describing the implementation and outcomes of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in acute-care hospitals with open-access, evidence-based guidelines endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. However, non-traditional settings often find themselves struggling to implement the same practices and procedures due to their unique needs and limited resources. There may be variability in access to resources, applicability, and patient-type. This book seeks to inform those in non-traditional healthcare settings on the principles, practice, and outcomes of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs to improve patient care across all settings.
The text begins by unpacking Antimicrobial Stewardship in nontraditional settings then covers specific environments, including long-term care facilities, outpatient clinics, and emergency departments. The text also covers special topics, including veterinary medicine, HIV, oncology, and immunocompromised patients, pediatrics, neonates, transplant, and critical care patients.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Shira Doron, MD
Antimicrobial Steward
Associate Hospital Epidemiologist
Associate Professor of Medicine
Tufts Medical Center
Maureen Campion, PharmD, BCIDP
Senior Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Infectious Diseases
Department of Pharmacy
Tufts Medical Center
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Antimicrobial Stewardship in Non-Traditional Settings
Book Subtitle: A Practical Guide
Editors: Shira Doron, Maureen Campion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21710-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21709-8Published: 02 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-21712-8Published: 03 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-21710-4Published: 01 March 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 221
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Infectious Diseases, Intensive / Critical Care Medicine, Immunology, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Emergency Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine