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Five Lessons Learned About Antimicrobial Stewardship Metrics

ID Stewardship

It may be derived from work completed inthe microbiology lab, unitsdispensed from the pharmacy, administrations performed by nurses, expenditures produced from drug purchases, documentation within any area of the electronic medical record, extraction from supplemental tools or data warehouses, and so much more.

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Episode 523: Why did the vancomycin guidelines make the switch to AUC/MIC based dosing?

Pharmacy Joe

New vancomycin guidelines were published in March 2020. In addition, the availability of first-order pharmacokinetic calculators, possibly even embedded in the electronic medical record and bayesian dosing methods that can guide AUC/MIC dosing are now readily available.