TY - JOUR
T1 - Global resilience and new strategies needed for antimicrobial stewardship during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
AU - Goff, Debra A.
AU - Gauthier, Timothy P.
AU - Langford, Bradley J.
AU - Prusakov, Pavel
AU - Ubaka Chukwuemka, Michael
AU - Nwomeh, Benedict C.
AU - Yunis, Khalid A.
AU - Saad, Therese
AU - van den Bergh, Dena
AU - Villegas, Maria Virginia
AU - Martinez, Nela
AU - Morris, Andrew
AU - Ashiru-Oredope, Diane
AU - Howard, Philip
AU - Sanchez, Pablo J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. JACCP: Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Pharmacotherapy Publications, Inc.
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - Resilience is having the ability to respond to adversity proactively and resourcefully. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic's profound impact on antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP) requires clinicians to call on their own resilience to manage the demands of the pandemic and the disruption of ASP activities. This article provides examples of ASP resilience from pharmacists and physicians from seven countries with different resources and approaches to ASP—The United States, The United Kingdom, Canada, Nigeria, Lebanon, South Africa, and Colombia. The lessons learned pertain to providing ASP clinical services in the context of a global pandemic, developing new ASP paradigms in the face of COVID-19, leveraging technology to extend the reach of ASP, and conducting international collaborative ASP research remotely. This article serves as an example of how resilience and global collaboration is sustaining our ASPs by sharing new “how to” do antimicrobial stewardship practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
AB - Resilience is having the ability to respond to adversity proactively and resourcefully. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic's profound impact on antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASP) requires clinicians to call on their own resilience to manage the demands of the pandemic and the disruption of ASP activities. This article provides examples of ASP resilience from pharmacists and physicians from seven countries with different resources and approaches to ASP—The United States, The United Kingdom, Canada, Nigeria, Lebanon, South Africa, and Colombia. The lessons learned pertain to providing ASP clinical services in the context of a global pandemic, developing new ASP paradigms in the face of COVID-19, leveraging technology to extend the reach of ASP, and conducting international collaborative ASP research remotely. This article serves as an example of how resilience and global collaboration is sustaining our ASPs by sharing new “how to” do antimicrobial stewardship practices during the COVID-19 pandemic.
KW - COVID-19 pandemic
KW - SARS-CoV-2
KW - antimicrobial stewardship
KW - pharmacists
KW - physicians
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85129086589&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/jac5.1622
DO - 10.1002/jac5.1622
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85129086589
SN - 2574-9870
VL - 5
SP - 707
EP - 715
JO - JACCP Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy
JF - JACCP Journal of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy
IS - 7
ER -