Antifungal stewardship: What we need to know
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2023-02
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Scientific Scholar
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Antimicrobial stewardship refers to a well-coordinated program which promotes the scientific and rational use of antimicrobials, reduces the chances of drug resistance and improves patient outcomes. A comprehensive English language literature search was done across multiple databases (PubMed, EMBASE, MEDLINE and Cochrane) for the period 1990–2022, revealing a large volume of reports of growing resistance to established antifungal therapies, against a backdrop of irrational and unscientific prescriptions. As a result of this, antifungal stewardship, a new kid on the block, has recently garnered attention. This review article is an attempt to summarise the basic concept of stewardship programs, highlighting the dire need to implement the same in the present situation of antifungal resistance and treatment failure
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Antimicrobial, antifungal, stewardship, update
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Ray, Arunima
Das, Anupam
Panda, Saumya. Antifungal stewardship: What we need to know. Journal Name. 2023 Feb; 89(1): 5-11
Das, Anupam
Panda, Saumya. Antifungal stewardship: What we need to know. Journal Name. 2023 Feb; 89(1): 5-11