Basic Principles of Implementing an Antibiotic Optimization Program

摘要

Antimicrobial stewardship is an important and evolving aspect of patient care and safety programs in hospitals around the world. A team of involved specialists, including infectious diseases physicians, clinical microbiologists, hospital epidemiologists and others, is needed to address this complex problem. In United States a clinical pharmacist has been also claimed to collaborate in this kind of program, but in Latin America and other limited-resources areas, lack of appropiate personnel are part of the limitations to implementation.