Antimicrobial stewardship

Antimicrobial Stewardship at a Large Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center: Cost Analysis Before, During, and After a 7-Year Program Author(s): Harold C. Standiford, Shannon Chan, Megan Tripoli, Elizabeth Weekes, Graeme N. Forrest Reviewed work(s): Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 33, No. 4, Special Topic Issue: Antimicrobial Stewardship (April 2012), pp. 338-345 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/664909 . Accessed: 16/03/2012 20:01
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april 2012, vol. 33, no. 4

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Antimicrobial Stewardship at a Large Tertiary Care Academic Medical Center: Cost Analysis Before, During, and After a 7-Year Program
Harold C. Standiford, MD;1,2 Shannon Chan, PharmD;3 Megan Tripoli, BA;1 Elizabeth Weekes, PharmD;4 Graeme N. Forrest, MBBS5

background. An antimicrobial stewardship program was fully implemented at the University of Maryland Medical Center in July 2001 (beginning of fiscal year [FY] 2002). Essential to the program was an antimicrobial monitoring team (AMT) consisting of an infectious diseases–trained clinical pharmacist and a part-time