Course: Challenges in Antibiotic Resistance: Point Prevalence Surveys

The word stewardship means ‘taking care’ so in this respect it means taking care of antibiotics. In practical terms antimicrobial stewardship is a programme of activities to improve how we …

Global PPS As the article in Step 1.4 and the video in Step 1.5 explained, antimicrobial resistance is a global problem. Therefore, the Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption …

The use of PPS within local or national antimicrobial stewardship or surveillance programmes has become more common in recent years. Between 2006 and 2009, PPS were carried out by the …

So far we have considered what a PPS is and how it fits into antimicrobial stewardship programmes to drive improvement in antibiotic prescribing. You have used a simple data collection …

Ideally a PPS would collect information about all patients in a hospital prescribed antibiotics on the same day. However, this is seldom practical, so usually a PPS will be carried …

Two types of data are required: Ward or denominator data This will be information about the ward in which the PPS is being undertaken and will include a categorisation of …

So why should you undertake a PPS? Undertaking a PPS will help identify which antibiotics are being used. Depending on the way the PPS is set up and the data …

We have looked at antimicrobial stewardship and have considered the importance of measurement of antibiotic use as part of stewardship activities. Monitoring quantitative trends in antibiotic use in a ward …

In this video Professor Dilip Nathwani, OBE, President of BSAC (2015-2018) welcomes you to the course and explains why undertaking Point Prevalence Surveys is important for Antimicrobial Stewardship globally. Let …