Course: Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance

You can implement AS activities successfully in a variety of geographical and socio-economic settings including small community hospitals. One of the major challenges in this South African example of a …

To facilitate measurement and feedback a “low-hanging fruit” toolkit, consisting of an Excel-based standardised measurement template/tool, was developed and launched in July 2012 for the five interventions. Part of the …

Watch the video with Ms Angeliki Messina, the Quality Leadership Project Manager for this South African AS initiative, as she explains the value of her role in co-ordinating data collection, …

To ensure the intervention would be successful the following also occurred during implementation: Formalisation of measurable AS goals for the group, which consisted of a sustainable reduction in overall antibiotic …

Watch the second video with Dr Adrian Brink and Dr Dena van den Berg as she explains the five “low-hanging fruit” chosen for their intervention: Whether cultures were performed prior …

In Week 3 you were introduced to PDSA cycles, DDDs, outcome and process measures and in Week 5 Prof Peter Davey explained the Model for Improvement. This AS programme was …

Within Europe cultural models have explained between 25% and 50% of variance in infection-control processes and outcomes. It is likely that specific combinations of cultural dimensions are more amenable to …

The data shown in the introductory video to this quick win indicated the overuse and inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics throughout South Africa. In this video Dr. Brink begins to explore …

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 …

Watch this video in which Dr Nick Barber interviews Dr Michael Borg and they discuss cultural barriers to change. Dr Nick Barber is Director of Research for The Health Foundation, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …