S Vergnano, A Bamford, S Bandi, F Chappel, A Demirjian, K Doerholt, M Emonts, L F Antolin, A Goenka, L Jones, J Herberg, L Hinds, O McGarrity, P Moriarty, S O'Riordan, M Patel, S Paulus, D Porter, K Stock, S Patel
A survey was conducted in UK regional children's hospitals with paediatric intensive care and paediatric infectious disease (PID) departments to describe the characteristics of paediatric antimicrobial stewardship (PAS) programmes. A structured questionnaire was sent to PAS coordinators. 'Audit and feedback' was implemented in 13 out of 17 centres. Microbiology-led services were more likely to implement antimicrobial restriction (75% vs 33% in PID-led services), to focus on broad-spectrum antibiotics, and to review patients with positive blood cultures...
May 23, 2020: Journal of Hospital Infection