8) Pharmacology: Infectious
Disease-Antimicrobial Stewardship (LO4)
(updated 5/20/19)
a. Joint Commission
- “New Antimicrobial Stewardship
Standard” July 2016;
https://www.jointcommission.org/-/media/enterprise/tjc/imported-resource-assets/documents/new_antimicrobial_stewardship_standardpdf.pdf?db=web&hash=69307456CCE435B134854392C7FA7D76
b. RMC “Empiric
Antibiotic Guidelines” updated 2018;
http://midwest.medcity.net/documentation/hospitals/rmc/RMC_Empiric_Guidelines.pdf
c. IDSA-Infectious
Disease Society of America -
“Combating Antimicrobial Resistance-Policy Recommendations to
Save Lives” May 2011;
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3738230/
d. Association for
Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
- “Section 10: Antimicrobial
Stewardship and Clostridium difficile Infection:
A Primer for the Infection Preventionist” pages 73-80, 2013
https://apic.org/Resource_/EliminationGuideForm/59397fc6-3f90-43d1-9325-e8be75d86888/File/2013CDiffFinal.pdf