Antimicrobial stewardship

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GLOBAL

World Health Organization (WHO)

• Antimicrobial stewardship programmes in health-care facilities in low- and middle-income countries. A WHO practical toolkit (WHO, 2019)

EUROPE

European Commission

• Commission Notice - EU Guidelines for the prudent use of antimicrobials in human health (2017/C 212/01) (European Commission, 2017)

AGENCIES AND ORGANISATIONS

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) / European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

• Structure and process indicators for hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs (Transatlantic Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance, 2015)
  Summary the modified Delphi process for common structure and process indicators for hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Core Elements of Hospital Antibiotic Stewardship Programs (2019)
   
• Antibiotic prescribing and Use in Hospitals and Long-term care

• Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship (2016)

• Core Elements of Antibiotic Stewardship for Nursing Homes (2015)

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) / Florida International University (FIU)

• Recommendations for Implementing Antimicrobial Stewardship in Latin America and the Caribbean: Manual for Public Health Decision-Makers (2018)

Antibiotic awareness days and weeks around the world

• European Antibiotic Awareness Day
• U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week
• Canada’s Antibiotic Awareness Week
• World Antibiotic Awareness Week

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

American Hospital Association (AHA)

• Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkit

European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)

• ESCMID generic competencies in antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship: towards a European consensus (2018)

Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) / Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)

• Implementing an antibiotic stewardship program: Guidelines by the Infectious Disease Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (2016)

• Guidelines for developing and institutional program to enhance antimicrobial stewardship (2007)

INTERNATIONAL EXPERT GROUP

• Consensus paper: Developing core elements and checklist items for global hospital antimicrobial stewardship programmes: a consensus approach (2018)

EU/EEA COUNTRIES

France

• Strategy for antibiotic therapy and prevention of bacterial resistance in healthcare organisations (French National Authority for Health , 2008)
  In French: Stratégie d’antibiothérapie et prévention des résistances bactériennes en établissement de santé (Haute Autorité de Santé, 2008) 
  In English: Clinical practice guidelines: Antibiotic therapy and prevention of bacterial resistance in healthcare organisations (Haute Autorité de Santé, 2008)
  Clinical practice guidelines: Antibiotic therapy and prevention of bacterial resistance in healthcare organisations- Checklists for professional practice appraisal (Haute Autorité de Santé, 2008)

Germany

• Strategies to enhance rational use of antibiotics in hospitals (German Society for Infectious Diseases)
  In English: Strategies to enhance rational use of antibiotics in hospital: a guideline by the German Society for Infectious Diseases (2016)
   

Ireland

• Guidelines for antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals in Ireland (SARI Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Working Group, Health Protection Surveillance Centre, 2009)

Netherlands

• Practice guide Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Netherlands (Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy, 2018)
  Praktijkgids Antimicrobial Stewardship in Nederland (Stichting Werkgroep Antibiotica Beleid, 2018)

• SWAB Guidelines for Antimicrobial Stewardship (Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy, 2016)
  SWAB Guidelines for Antimicrobial Stewardship (Stichting Werkgroep Antibiotica Beleid, 2016)
• Current evidence on hospital antimicrobial stewardship objectives: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2016)
  Current evidence on hospital antimicrobial stewardship objectives: a systematic review and meta-analysis [AM1] 

Spain

• Programmes for optimising the use of antibiotics (PROA) in Spanish hospitals: GEIH-SEIMC, SEFH and SEMPSPH consensus document, 2012
  Programas de optimización de uso de antimicrobianos (PROA) en hospitales españoles: documento de consenso GEIH-SEIMC, SEFH y SEMPSPH, 2012

(Grupo de Estudio de la Infección Hospitalaria-Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica, GEIH-SEIMC; Sociedad Española de Farmacia Hospitalaria, SEFH; Sociedad Española de Medicina Preventiva, Salud Pública e Higiene, SEMPSPH; 2012)

COUNTRIES OUTSIDE THE EU/EEA

Australia

• Antimicrobial Stewardship in Australian Health Care 2018 (Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, 2018)

United Kingdom

• Start Smart - Then Focus. Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkit for English Hospitals (Public Health England, 2015)
• Start Smart - Then Focus Appendix 1 : Resource Materials: Examples of audit tools, review stickers and drug charts (Public Health England, 2015)
• Antimicrobial stewardship: changing risk-related behaviours in the general population: NICE guideline ( National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2017)
• Antimicrobial stewardship: Quality standard (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2016)
• Antimicrobial stewardship: systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use: NICE guideline (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, 2015)