ArticleThe western journal of emergency medicine2020
COVID-19: An Emerging Threat to Antibiotic Stewardship in the Emergency Department.
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- CBC-derived inflammatory indices predict adverse outcomes in geriatric emergency patients with acute infectious diarrhea: a MIMIC-IV analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Optimizing antimicrobial stewardship during operational upheaval: lessons in resiliency from the COVID-19 pandemic.Infection control and hospital epidemiology · 2026Article
- National Trends in Antibiotic Prescribing for Adults Hospitalized With Coronavirus Disease 2019 and Other Viral Respiratory Infections.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Effect and sustainability of a stepwise implemented multidisciplinary antimicrobial stewardship programme in a university hospital emergency department.JAC-antimicrobial resistance · 2024Article
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- The sustained usefulness of online learning to educate nurses about antibiotic stewardship.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2024Article
- How Clinicians Decide? Exploring Complexity of Antibiotic Prescribing in Emergency Departments Using Video-Reflexive Ethnography.Qualitative health research · 2023Article
- Secondary fungal infections in SARS-CoV-2 patients: pathological whereabouts, cautionary measures, and steadfast treatments.Pharmacological reports : PR · 2023Review
- Impact of an Educational and Laboratory Stewardship Intervention on Inpatient COVID-19 Therapeutics at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center.Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2023Article
- A multi-institutional exploration of emergency medicine physicians' attitudes and behaviours on antibiotic use during the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2023Article
- Variability in changes in physician outpatient antibiotic prescribing from 2019 to 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2023Article
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- A Perfect Storm: COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance.EMJ. Microbiology & infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Tetrandrine Treatment May Improve Clinical Outcome in Patients with COVID-19.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
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- Leveraging antimicrobial stewardship programs in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency.Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE · 2022Review
- Bacterial and fungal co-infections among ICU COVID-19 hospitalized patients in a Palestinian hospital: a retrospective cross-sectional study.F1000Research · 2022Article
- Management of COVID-19 Patients in the Emergency Department.Journal of personalized medicine · 2021Review
- The Pandemic beyond the Pandemic: A Scoping Review on the Social Relationships between COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Suboptimal antimicrobial stewardship in the COVID-19 era: is humanity staring at a postantibiotic future?Future microbiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
While current research efforts focus primarily on identifying patient level interventions that mitigate the direct impact of COVID-19, it is important to consider the collateral effects of COVID-19 on antimicrobial resistance. Early reports suggest high rates of antibiotic utilization in COVID-19 patients despite their lack of direct activity against viral pathogens. The ongoing pandemic is exacerbating known barriers to optimal antibiotic stewardship in the ED, representing an additional direct threat to patient safety and public health. There is an urgent need for research analyzing overall and COVID-19 specific antibiotic prescribing trends in the ED. Optimizing ED stewardship during COVID-19 will likely require a combination of traditional stewardship approaches (e.g. academic detailing, provider education, care pathways) and effective implementation of host response biomarkers and rapid COVID-19 diagnostics. Antibiotic stewardship interventions with demonstrated efficacy in mitigating the impact of COVID-19 on ED prescribing should be widely disseminated and inform the ongoing pandemic response.
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