2020
Guide, user guide or guidelines
This consumer guide explains what the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard means for consumers, and what they can do to have an active role in their care.
2020
Guide, user guide or guidelines
This fact sheet explains what the Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Care Standard means for clinicians and for patient care.
2020
Newsletter
This issue includes items on COVID-19, harm in primary care, falls prevention, speaking truth to power, acute coronary syndromes and more.
Purpose
Purpose
To optimise patients’ antimicrobial therapy through clinical assessment and review of the appropriateness of the antimicrobial and of investigation results.
Purpose
Purpose
To inform patients about their clinical condition so that they can participate in decision-making about their treatment options in collaboration with their clinician. This may or may not include antimicrobials.
Purpose
To support appropriate antimicrobial selection with relevant microbiology testing when clinically indicated.
Purpose
Purpose
To ensure that the most appropriate antimicrobial treatment is given. That is, to ensure that the appropriate spectrum microbial of activity, active ingredient, dose, frequency and route of administration, and duration of therapy is chosen.