JAC AMR

08/06/2021

JAC-AMR study aims to detail whether audit and feedback is a feasible and useful methodology to assess the implementation of antibiotic stewardship programmes in hospitals.

AbstractBackground. Implementation of antibiotic stewardship programmes (ASPs) in hospitals is challenging and there is a knowledge gap on how to pursue this pr

14/04/2021

Repeated isolation of ESBL-E. coli risks subsequent development of carbapenem heteroresistant phenotype potentially linking to increased morbidity. Great paper by et al

AbstractBackground. Up to 32% of ESBL-producing Enterobacterales strains display a carbapenem-heteroresistant (cHR) phenotype but its clinical relevance is unkn

13/04/2021

The Indian Council of Medical Research has developed a promising tool (i-AMRSS) for the collection, management and analysis of data:

AbstractBackground. Growing resistance to antimicrobials has become an important health issue of the 21st century. Many international, national and local approa

16/03/2021

This study found that a Support Vector Machine (SVM) using 21 routine blood test variables had an excellent performance at inferring the likelihood of positive microbiology.

AbstractBackground. Bacterial infection has been challenging to diagnose in patients with COVID-19. We developed and evaluated supervised machine learning algor

04/02/2021

We're delighted to publish the first update of UK guidelines in more than a decade. Please share with your contacts & colleagues .

Treatment of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): updated guidelines from the UK.

Abstract. These evidence-based guidelines are an updated version of those issued in 2008. They have been produced following a review of the published literature

02/02/2021

Educational Resource Review in JACAMR: This 45 min downloadable lecture is a very brief review of commonly used antimicrobials summarizing essential information on the appropriate selection of a drug:

Northwestern Medicine Antimicrobial Stewardship Educational Materials

06/01/2021

What impact has had on community prescribing in Scotland? Surprisingly after an initial surge, the number of prescriptions for antibiotics actually fell. Why? Great paper

AbstractBackground. Following concerns about increased antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic, trends in community antibiotic prescriptions in Scotland wer

22/12/2020

NEW🔥 in JAC-AMR: Cognitive bias: how understanding its impact on antibiotic prescribing decisions can help advance antimicrobial stewardship.

Abstract. The way clinicians think about decision-making is evolving. Human decision-making shifts between two modes of thinking, either fast/intuitive (Type 1)

08/12/2020

Great news: The WHO’s updates of Defined Daily Dose (DDD) have had a significant impact on the measurement of antibacterial consumption.

AbstractObjectives. In 2019 the WHO fully adopted new DDD values. The objective of this study is to analyse their impact on the measurement of consumption of an

01/12/2020

This study defines four proxy indicators to estimate the appropriateness of prescription at prescriber level for infectious diseases in children, that are easily calculable based on reimbursement data only.

AbstractBackground. We previously developed proxy indicators (P*s) that can be used to estimate the appropriateness of medications used for infectious diseases

18/11/2020

Today marks the start of . Today, someone, somewhere, will die as a result of every 45 seconds. Without action, by 2050 there could be a death every 3 seconds as a result of . The clock is ticking...

12/11/2020

AMR is one of the top 10 global public health threats facing humanity. So why aren't more people talking about it? Brilliant piece about raising awareness of

Abstract. In response to the accepted risk of emerging antimicrobial resistance, many organizations and institutions have developed and delivered events and ac