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STROBE-AMS: recommendations to optimise reporting of epidemiological studies on antimicrobial resistance and informing improvement in antimicrobial stewardship.
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39 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- An analysis of reporting quality of prospective studies examining community antibiotic use and resistance.Trials · 2018Pooled it
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- Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship in Surgical Departments: A Three-Year Single-Center Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Observational
- Impact of appropriate antimicrobial therapy on patient outcomes and antimicrobial use: a sub analysis of the DIANA Study Dataset.Intensive care medicine · 2026Article
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- Duration of same-species antimicrobial non-susceptibility persistence in urinary gram-negative bacilli: a 12-year within-patient cohort study.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Healthcare-associated infections in an intensive care unit: a descriptive study, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, 2018-2021.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2026Article
- A rapid systematic scoping review of the levels of bacterial antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use among people in contact with the criminal justice system.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2025Review
- Evaluating academic detailing as an antibiotic stewardship intervention in primary healthcare settings in Croatia.BMC primary care · 2024Article
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- Evaluation of Hospital Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Implementation, Process, Impact, and Outcomes, Review of Systematic Reviews.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Five steps to high quality antimicrobial stewardship research.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2024Article
- The association between socioeconomic factors and the success of decolonization treatment among individuals diagnosed with methicillin-resistantInfection control and hospital epidemiology · 2023Article
- Trends in antibiotic selection pressure generated in primary care and their association with sentinel antimicrobial resistance patterns in Europe.The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy · 2023Article
- Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility ofAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- REVersal of nEuromusculAr bLocking Agents in Patients Undergoing General Anaesthesia (REVEAL Study).Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- The Safety and Impact of Raising the Urine Culture Reporting Threshold in Hospitalized Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Changing Patterns of Bloodstream Infections in the Community and Acute Care Across 2 Coronavirus Disease 2019 Epidemic Waves: A Retrospective Analysis Using Data Linkage.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo explore the accuracy of application of the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) tool in epidemiological studies focused on the evaluation of the role of antibiotics in selecting resistance, and to derive and test an extension of STROBE to improve the suitability of the tool in evaluating the quality of reporting in these area.
methodsA three-step study was performed. First, a systematic review of the literature analysing the association between antimicrobial exposure and acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and/or multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii was performed. Second, articles were reviewed according to the STROBE checklist for epidemiological studies. Third, a set of potential new items focused on antimicrobial-resistance quality indicators was derived through an expert two-round RAND-modified Delphi procedure and tested on the articles selected through the literature review.
resultsThe literature search identified 78 studies. Overall, the quality of reporting appeared to be poor in most areas. Five STROBE items, comprising statistical analysis and study objectives, were satisfactory in <25% of the studies. Informative abstract, reporting of bias, control of confounding, generalisability and description of study size were missing in more than half the articles. A set of 21 new items was developed and tested. The new items focused particularly on the study setting, antimicrobial usage indicators, and patients epidemiological and clinical characteristics. The performance of the new items in included studies was very low (<25%).
conclusionsOur paper reveals that reporting in epidemiological papers analysing the association between antimicrobial usage and development of resistance is poor. The implementation of the newly developed STROBE for antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) tool should enhance appropriate study design and reporting, and therefore contribute to the improvement of evidence to be used for AMS programme development and assessment.
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