Course: Antimicrobial Stewardship for Africa

In this video Professor Oyinola Oduyebu explains how they started a stewardship programme in Nigeria. Barriers such as funding caused delays to the project but the Global PPS data provided …

Watch this video by Professor Andrew Whitelaw in which he explains why there was a need to develop antimicrobial stewardship in South Africa. This video expands on the case detailed …

There is compelling evidence that feedback and self-monitoring are effective behaviour change techniques across a range of healthcare interventions and that their effectiveness is enhanced by goal setting and action …

In designing your stewardship intervention you need to define who, when, how often and via what means feedback should be provided consistently. A meta-regression analysis by Ivers et al found …

Feedback mandates comparison of current behaviour with past behaviour or with others’ behaviour or with a standard. Therefore, defining process and outcome measures are key in understanding and interpreting quality …

Passive education alone (e.g. lectures, educational events), without active intervention, has been shown to be only marginally effective in changing antimicrobial prescribing practices and has no sustained impact. You are …

As Dr Adrian Brink explained in his low hanging fruit example they targeted duration of therapy and double cover. In this video Aalaa Afdal explains how to use quantity measures …

In this video Aalaa Afdal explains the reason to measure and how to measure the quality of antibiotic prescribing. You may want to look at the Global PPS tool she …

In this video Aalaa Afdal, a pharmacist, explains how measurement is the cornerstone to antimicrobial stewardship programmes. Audit was key to starting the antimicrobial stewardship programme described by Dr Fajolu …

As in the example from Nigeria, in South Africa resources and staff are limited. There aren’t enough infectious disease resources or microbiologists in all hospitals. There aren’t Infectious Disease pharmacists …

In this video Mrs Oyegoke, Director of Nursing Services and Lagos University Teaching Hospital, offers a nursing perspective on Antimicrobial Stewardship. She explains what antimicrobial stewardship is, the goals and …

In this video Mrs Opanuga, Head of Pharmacy in Lagos University Teaching Hospital, explains what stewardship is and how they started in her location. She introduces the concept of Defined …

Please watch this video in which Dr Ireti Fajolu describes how they started in their location. As you watch the video reflect on how their AMS program started and whether …

The terms antibiotic policy and guidelines are often used interchangeably and may be confusing to many healthcare providers. An antibiotic policy is a set of principles to guide implementation of …

You may now have questions such as: What are the links between Infection Prevention (IPC) and Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS)? What practical steps can we take to incorporate AMS into existing …