How to Build a Case for an Inpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
The AMMI Canada Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Committee (ASRC) has authored a Business Case document on How to Build a Case for an Inpatient Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP). The intent of this initiative is to facilitate healthcare leaders in acquiring the necessary resources from healthcare administrators to launch or improve their own antimicrobial stewardship programs.
Antimicrobial stewardship is first and foremost a patient safety and quality of care initiative. Through collaboration, antimicrobial stewardship programs provide an opportunity to realize institutional cost avoidance in areas such as pharmacy, infection prevention and control, the microbiology laboratory, and housekeeping. ASPs have the potential to improve patient care and improve patient flow while decreasing costs.
Please read through the documents carefully, bearing in mind the following:
All of these files are “open source”; you can use and customize these files as you see fit.
We only ask that you provide AMMI Canada with feedback (2-minute survey) so that we can improve and add to the toolkit for future users.
AMMI Canada’s Antimicrobial Stewardship and Resistance Committee (ASRC) is made up of a group of volunteer members who work towards improving antimicrobial use and reducing or containing antimicrobial resistance. These files were created by the ASRC.
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