What kind of organisation do you work in?
In this video Professor Peter Davey explains “Power Distance” and its role in behaviour change. He begins by asking what sort of organisation you work in and goes on to …
Course: Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance
Identifying behaviour change techniques in an intervention
Interventions to change behaviour are usually complex, involving several components. This makes them challenging to replicate and to implement in practice. Social Scientists have developed a taxonomy of Behaviour Change …
Behaviour change techniques (BCTs) and how to use them with the Model for Improvement
In this video Professor Peter Davey discusses how behaviour change techniques (BCTs) can be used to support the Model for Improvement in an intervention. Before you watch the video revisit …
The importance of culture and team dynamics in antimicrobial stewardship
In this video Ms Esmita Charani, MPharm, MSc Academic Research Pharmacist and PhD student National Institute of Health Research Health Protection Unit Imperial College London discusses the role of culture …
Professor Paul Batalden
Professor Paul Batalden was awarded the Deming Medal in 2010 by the American Society of Quality in recognition of his work on advancing the scholarship of quality improvement. Professor Batalden …
Higher order goals
Higher order goals are outcomes that are expected to improve as a result of an intervention. In this video Dr Mike Cooper explains how he successfully engaged clinicians in his …
Professor Peter Davey summarises behaviours
In the previous step you were asked to watch the MDT meeting and make notes on whose behaviour needed to change and what the barriers to change might be. In …
Pharmacokinetics of Antimicrobials
The outcome of a bacterial infection is determined by many factors, most of which cannot be influenced by physicians: the organism’s virulence and resistance to antibiotics the host’s immune response …
Review of behaviours during the MDT meeting in the scenario
There is a very strong evidence base for successful behaviour change techniques. Changing practitioners’ behaviour is key to successful antimicrobial stewardship but in the complexity of clinical care there are …
Computer decision support systems in practice
Computer decision support systems (CDS) can increase the uptake of guidelines by physicians. Nevertheless, they are difficult to implement, require significant resources for implementation and maintenance and uptake by physicians …
Computerised systems to aid decision-making
In this video Dr Benedikt Huttner discusses how information should be held on computerised systems to aid decision-making. Watch the video and then read this extract from the Nachtigall et …
What are biomarkers?
The European Medicine Agency defines biomarkers as: “… tests that can be used to follow body processes and diseases in humans and animals. They can be used to predict how …
A new novel test in practice: a clinical trial
In 2015 a paper, “Randomised Trial of Rapid Multiplex Polymerase Chain Reaction-Based Blood Culture Identification and Susceptibility Testing” by Banerjee et al, was published detailing the results of a clinical …
Implementation of novel diagnostic tests
Earlier you watched a video with Dr Paño and Dr García discussing the timing of microbiological diagnosis in regard to Bill’s case. They pointed out the importance of optimising microbiological …
Diagnosing the cause of Bill’s infections
Watch Bill’s clinical scenario (or read the transcript in downloads below) and address these three questions: Do you think that getting to know which micro organisms are causing Bill’s symptoms …
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Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance
