Nationwide Antibiotic Stewardship Program in Denmark contributes to 20% decrease in antibiotic use

Martina

Antibiotic use has decreased almost 20% in Central Denmark since 2011, possibly related to a nationwide antibiotic stewardship program in Denmark.

Read full study recently published in BMC Infectious Diseases: Decreasing trends, and geographical variation in outpatient antibiotic use: a population-based study in Central Denmark https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-019-3964-9

Martina

Interesting article in Becker's Hospital Review on the findings from a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control, that found more than half of registered nurses are not familiar with efforts to curb antibiotic overuse.

Two findings:

• Fifty-two percent of nurses were not familiar with the term "antimicrobial stewardship"
• About 39 percent of nurses indicated that an antimicrobial stewardship program was moderately or extremely important in their healthcare setting

• Read full article at https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/52-of-nurses-not-familiar-with-term-antimicrobial-stewardship.html
• American Journal of Infection Control: Antimicrobial stewardship: Staff nurse knowledge and attitudes https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(19)30182-8/fulltext