Healthcare Purchasing News – “Superbugs colonize and cooperate. To defeat them, we must do the same.”
November 04, 2016
The ECRI Institute put inadequate antimicrobial stewardship on its 2016 list of top patient safety risks. PipelineRx’s Kevin Jones, Vice President of Pharmacy Services, and Hong Lam, Director of Quality and Clinical Services, comment on what it takes to create and maintain an Antibiotic Stewardship Program (ASP). Nearly nine years ago, medical researchers published an impassioned call to the medical community for better stewardship and development of new antibiotics in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Yet as 23,000 people die from antibiotic resistant infections each year, and the calls grow louder and the pressure intensifies, too many healthcare facilities still struggle to implement solid antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs).