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. 2013 Jan 29;4(2):192–202. doi: 10.4161/viru.23706

Table 2. Main learning outcomes used to design antibiotic stewardship workshops.

Measuring antibiotic use
• Identify sources of data and understand how to measure antimicrobial use in the community and in hospitals
• Select proper measurement units to describe the volume of antimicrobial use
• Interpret antimicrobial use data locally and within a multicenter network (benchmarking)
• Choose and apply a method to study the relationship between antimicrobial prescribing and bacterial resistance
Auditing antibiotic use
• Choose and apply an audit methodology for monitoring the quality of antimicrobial prescriptions
Improving antibiotic use • Identify the steps and sources for evidence-based guideline development
• Describe the elements needed to launch a stewardship program in hospitals Identify barriers encountered in Antimicrobial Stewardship programs and how to overcome them
• Make sense of interpersonal aspects of implementing change
• Identify possible intervention strategies (and their relative advantages and disadvantages) which could be implemented in a hospital
• Identify the electronic antimicrobial drug prescribing aids and their advantages and disadvantages
• Build national and international support for Antimicrobial Stewardship programs
• Select a proper method to study the effect of interventions in hospitals
• Describe how an individual hospital can determine if its antimicrobial management program was economically successful and if it had an impact on bacterial resistance