Course: Antimicrobial Stewardship: Managing Antibiotic Resistance

Within Europe cultural models have explained between 25% and 50% of variance in infection-control processes and outcomes. It is likely that specific combinations of cultural dimensions are more amenable to …

Interventions to change behaviour are usually complex, involving several components. This makes them challenging to replicate and to implement in practice. Social Scientists have developed a taxonomy of Behaviour Change …

In this video Professor Peter Davey explains “Power Distance” and its role in behaviour change. He begins by asking what sort of organisation you work in and goes on to …

In this video Ms Esmita Charani, MPharm, MSc Academic Research Pharmacist and PhD student National Institute of Health Research Health Protection Unit Imperial College London discusses the role of culture …

In this video Professor Peter Davey discusses how behaviour change techniques (BCTs) can be used to support the Model for Improvement in an intervention. Before you watch the video revisit …

Higher order goals are outcomes that are expected to improve as a result of an intervention. In this video Dr Mike Cooper explains how he successfully engaged clinicians in his …

Professor Paul Batalden was awarded the Deming Medal in 2010 by the American Society of Quality in recognition of his work on advancing the scholarship of quality improvement. Professor Batalden …

There is a very strong evidence base for successful behaviour change techniques. Changing practitioners’ behaviour is key to successful antimicrobial stewardship but in the complexity of clinical care there are …

In the previous step you were asked to watch the MDT meeting and make notes on whose behaviour needed to change and what the barriers to change might be. In …

The outcome of a bacterial infection is determined by many factors, most of which cannot be influenced by physicians: the organism’s virulence and resistance to antibiotics the host’s immune response …

Computer decision support systems (CDS) can increase the uptake of guidelines by physicians. Nevertheless, they are difficult to implement, require significant resources for implementation and maintenance and uptake by physicians …

The European Medicine Agency defines biomarkers as: “… tests that can be used to follow body processes and diseases in humans and animals. They can be used to predict how …

In this video Dr Benedikt Huttner discusses how information should be held on computerised systems to aid decision-making. Watch the video and then read this extract from the Nachtigall et …

Earlier you watched a video with Dr Paño and Dr García discussing the timing of microbiological diagnosis in regard to Bill’s case. They pointed out the importance of optimising microbiological …

In this video Dr Paño and the microbiologist Dr García discuss how antimicrobial stewardship can play a part in optimising diagnosis time. Do you think that the yield and impact …