Antibiotic Resistance

Optimizing antibiotic use and infectious diagnostic testing

November 17, 2020

A presentation at the virtual 2020 American Academy of Pediatrics National Conference & Exhibition offered a case-based format to highlight several important clinical pearls relating to optimizing antimicrobial use in the outpatient and inpatient pediatrics settings.

Decreasing antibiotic exposure in the neonatal intensive care unit

October 21, 2020

Controlling exposure to antibiotics is important for stewardship programs, and is even more important in neonatal intensive care unit. A report on a quality improvement program offers some good news.

Quality improvement program tries to reduce vancomycin use

July 06, 2020

Reducing antibiotic resistance has been a high priority for quality improvement programs. How well did one program do in reducing vancomycin use?