Objectives The WHO Access, Watch and Reserve (AWaRe) classification has been developed
to support countries and hospitals in promoting rational use of antibiotics while improving …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) remains an important global public health issue with
antimicrobial misuse and overuse being one of the main drivers. The Global Point Prevalence …

Background The Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and
Resistance (Global-PPS) provides a methodology to support hospitals worldwide in collecting …

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health challenge with understudied effects on
antimicrobial usage. We aimed to analyze antimicrobial prescribing patterns in COVID-19 …

Background: Patient-level surveillance of antimicrobial use (AMU) in Canadian hospitals
empowers the reduction of inappropriate AMU and was piloted in 2017 among 14 hospitals in …

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the key issues limiting the successful treatment of infectious
diseases and associated with adverse medical, social and economic consequences on a …

Objectives: Optimising antimicrobial prescribing in hospitals through antimicrobial
stewardship (AMS) is essential in addressing the global threat of antimicrobial resistance. The …

… Noriomi Ishibashi and Ines Pauwels contributed equally to this work. … Noriomi Ishibashi
and Ines Pauwels contributed equally to this work. All the authors met the ICMJE authorship …

Background Point prevalence surveys (PPS) provide valuable data on patterns of hospital
antimicrobial administration. To identify quality improvement indicators, we evaluated …

To explain the mixed findings on hiring discrimination against homosexual applicants, we
explore the perceptual drivers behind employers' evaluations of gay men and lesbian women. …