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Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance

University of Dundee via FutureLearn

Overview

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Understand antimicrobial stewardship

Designed for healthcare professionals, this six-week course will inform you about – and empower you to provide – safe, high-quality antibiotic use. You’ll interact with colleagues globally, to understand what antibiotic resistance means – and why the World Economic Forum has placed it alongside terrorism and climate change on its global risk register. You can also join the course in Español, 中文, Pусский, or Portuguesa.

Acknowledgements

This course requires an active interest and prior experience in the prevention, diagnosis and management of infectious disease. This version is for learners who prefer to participate in English.

You can also join the course in the following language versions:

  • Espanol: Optimización del uso de antimicrobianos: Gestión de la resistencia a los antimicrobianos
  • 中文: 抗菌素管理: 管理抗生素耐药性
  • Pусский: Стратегия контроля антимикробной терапии (СКАТ): контроль антибиотикорезистентности

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Syllabus

  • Welcome to The Course
    • Introduction
    • Setting The Scene
    • The Impact Of Resistance
    • A Closer Look at Resistance
    • Prescribing and Resistance
  • What is Antimicrobial Stewardship?
    • Antimicrobial Stewardship
    • What is Antimicrobial Stewardship?
    • Who Needs to be Involved in Antimicrobial Stewardship
    • Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies
    • The Effectiveness of interventions used in antimicrobial Stewardship
  • Measurement
    • Why measure antibiotic use?
    • How and what to measure.
    • Measuring the quality of antibiotic use.
  • Emerging Strategies for antimicrobial stewardship
    • Welcome to Week 4
    • Seizing the opportunity to diagnose the cause of infection
    • Novel diagnostic tests and their implementation
    • Biomarkers
    • Computerised decision support
    • Pharmacokinetics (PK) Pharmacodynamics (PD)
  • Behaviour Change
    • Behaviour change
    • Whose behaviour needs to change?
    • Culture and context
    • Behaviour Change Techniques (BCTs) and the Model for Improvement.
    • Power distance and uncertainty avoidance
  • Quick wins from across the globe
    • Introduction to Week 6: Quick wins from across the globe
    • Quick win 1
    • Implementing the model for improvement
    • Measuring the impact of the model
    • Quick win 2
    • The problem

Taught by

Dilip Nathwani

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4.7 rating at FutureLearn based on 79 ratings

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  • Excellent Course! Very informative and consist of accumulative information on various topics such as; AMR, Programs Development, Antibiotic Measurements, Diagnostics Strategies and Behavioral change. I would highly recommend the course to anyone who's a Clinical Laboratory Student, Physician or Nurse. Great Course!
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