Medication safety - antimicrobial stewardship
What AMS is
- Coordinated system of interventions to optimise which antimicrobial, what dose/route, and for how long - to improve outcomes, reduce toxicity and slow emergence of resistance
- Mandatory in Australian hospitals - a criterion of the NSQHS Preventing and Controlling Infections Standard, plus the AMS Clinical Care Standard
- Antimicrobials are the only drug class where use in one patient harms the next - the ecological argument
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