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Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is the systematic effort to educate and persuade prescribers of antimicrobials to follow evidence-based prescribing, in order to stem antibiotic overuse, and thus antimicrobial resistance. AMS has been an organized effort of specialists in infectious diseases,both in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with their respective peer-organizations, hospital pharmacists, the public health community and their professional organizations since the late 1990s. It has first been implemented in hospitals. In the U.S., AMS has largely been voluntary self-regulation in the form of policies and appeals to adhere to a prescribing discipline. At hospitals, this may take the form of an antimicrobial stewardship program. As of 2014, only the state of California has made AMS mandatory by law. ==Definition== AMS, per the 2007 definition of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), is a "set of coordinated strategies to improve the use of antimicrobial medications with the goal to * enhance patient health outcomes, * reduce antibiotic resistance, and * decrease unnecessary costs". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antimicrobial stewardship」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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