Current Challenges in Antimicrobial Stewardship
A special issue of Antibiotics (ISSN 2079-6382). This special issue belongs to the section "Antibiotics Use and Antimicrobial Stewardship".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2027 | Viewed by 2467
Special Issue Editor
Interests: antimicrobial stewardship; infectious diseases; microbiome; therapeutic monitoring; neurochemistry; neuropharmacology; neurodegenerative diseases; clinical pharmacy
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Dear Colleagues,
It’s not a new information that antibiotics resistance is one of the biggest challenges in treatment of patients suffering from an infectious disease. The problem is not only a matter of quarterly or annual statistics or watching colourful resistance maps, it is more than that and we know that the resistance situation is making patients vulnerable. Several recent publications provide evidence that antimicrobial resistance is leading to a significant burden of patients' situation and even is crucially connected with fatal outcomes.
One known and established strategy is the appropriate management of infectious diseases and among the most important tasks the path towards better antibiotics prescribing quality represents an important approach. Several strategies are dealing with improvement of quality in the clinics and monitoring the state of the process regularly – taken together within the “antimicrobial stewardship” programmatic approaches. These approaches naturally differ between hospitals and outpatient sites and although guidelines are providing useful recommendations, an individual approach perhaps shows a very valuable benefit for the practice.
Against this background, this special issue shall collect such best-practice approaches within antimicrobial stewardship toward a better situation in everyday life. This is a call for submissions: if you have such experience with projects, regardless if the project or idea is simple or complex, we are happy about submission of the report. The one and only required measure is the scientific quality. Additionally, full scientific and even complex study manuscripts are welcome as well. This is valid for every antimicrobial stewardship section.
Thus, invited are papers of any type (case reports, original articles describing the setup of a new local guideline, surveillance data, review articles) with a clear rationale and clear message for the colleagues.
Dr. Andreas A. Von Ameln-Mayerhofer
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- antimicrobial stewardship
- antimicrobial resistance
- antibiotics prescribing
- intervention
- irrational prescriptions
- surveillance
- therapeutic monitoring
- ABS
- AMS
- antibiotic stewardship
- best practice
- interprofessional
- rational prescribing
- DDD/100
- RDD/100
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