Reviewed by Cindy Noyes, MD; University of Vermont Health, Burlington, VT Chauhan et al. describe several simple, yet impactful, interventions to reduce unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions…
Reviewed by: S. Shaefer Spires, MD, Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC The authors examined 438 clinical C. difficile isolates from…
Reviewed by: Dr. Michael Payne, MD; London Health Sciences Centre Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) have been broadly utilized during the COVID-19 pandemic and have been associated…
Reviewed by Zachary Willis, MD MPH; UNC Health, Chapel Hill, NC In an analysis of a prospective cohort from a collaboration of 62 hospitals in…
Reviewed by Hannah Imlay, MD MS; University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, UT and Erica Stohs, MD MPH; University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha,…
Reviewed by: Rebekah Moehring, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA; Duke University, Durham, NC Stewards rejoice! Two new randomized controlled trials were published this month supporting the…
Stewies Burned by COVID-19 Kids’ Corner: COVID Update Bedaquiline continues to be a reliable tool in the treatment of MDR-TB Can You CAP-IT? Amoxicillin dose…
Reviewed by Clare Marlin, MS, RN, CIC, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL Healthcare workers (HCWs) may be exposed to blood and body fluids, among other…
Reviewed by Erica Stohs, MD, MPH, University of Nebraska “CAP-IT,” a recent multicenter, randomized controlled trial, evaluated children 6 months and older with community acquired…
Bedaquiline Drug Resistance Emergence Assessment in Multidrug-resistant-tuberculosis (MDR-TB) (DREAM) was a 5-year (2015-2019) drug-resistance surveillance study across 11 countries. This study demonstrates that resistance rates…
Reviewed by Emily Thorell, MD MSCI, University of Utah Health and Zachary Willis, MD, MPH, UNC Health Care Return of children to childcare and school…
Reviewed by: Cynthia T. Nguyen, PharmD, University of Chicago Medicine During the COVID-19 pandemic, antimicrobial stewardship programs have increased workload related to COVID-19, less time…
