Objectives

NASP aims to support the national surveillance and promote operational research to strengthen the evidence, which is based on antimicrobial stewardship. Thus, it will also help to inform decision-making and drive national actions. The main target of NASP is to support countries – especially low-income and middle-income countries, in implementing Objective 4 of the Global Action Plan

Hospital’s and Outpatient’s Stewardship

ASPs can help clinicians improve clinical outcomes and minimize harm by improving antibiotic prescriptions. Hospital prescribers and pharmacists can improve antibiotic prescription by optimizing antibiotic selection, re-assessing antibiotic treatment when the results of diagnostic testing are available, and using the shortest effective duration of therapy.

Hospital antibiotic stewardship programs can increase infection cure rates while reducing:

Fixing one program as a standard for an antibiotic prescription for all hospitals is not acceptable because each hospital has its own needs. Physicians’ priorities are also different for different indications. So, adapting CDC’s Hospital core elements for antimicrobial stewardship program makes the decisions regarding antibiotic prescription easy. These core elements are attached in the resources section. Similarly, there are also core elements for antibiotic stewardship for outpatient facilities. This helps the clinicians improved antibiotic prescribing, and measures the use by the patients.

AMR Sentinel Sites