🔥 Big news for TB preventive therapy ! Thanks to 🇨🇦 (😉 🇺🇸), McGill university and Dr Dick Menzies ➡️ New versions TSTin4D (www.TSTin4D.com) or IGRAin4D (www.IGRAin4D.com) #IDsky #MEDsky #TBsky

Audit & feedback with peer comparison works to improve antibiotic prescribing in primary care. Now, health system leaders and policy-makers must take decisive steps to integrate this strategy into the healthcare system. qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/earl... 👏 @kevinschwartz.bsky.social

SRMA of Antibiotic Audit and Feedback in Primary Care: 💊11% ⬇️prescribing volume ▶️23%⬇️in unnecessary initiation 💣17% ⬇️in broad-spectrum selection 🗓️13%⬇️in prolonged duration doi.org/10.1093/cid/ci… Great work by @kevinschwartz.bsky.social and team via @cidjournal.bsky.social

After initial gains some restaurant chains have backtracked in animal antibiotic use grades #WAAW static1.squarespace.com/static/61e71...

Feels right that my 1st post here should be to share this incredible RCT, led by my PhD supervisor Nick Daneman: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Main takeaway: 7-days of abx should be the standard of care for patients with uncomplicated non-S. aureus BSI. A deep dive 🧵: #IDsky

Antibiotic Treatment for 7 versus 14 Days in Patients with Bloodstream Infections | NEJM

Bloodstream infections are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Early, appropriate antibiotic therapy is important, but the duration of treatment is uncertain. In a multicenter, non...

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Introducing AMR Aware Canada’s new campaign toolkit for #WAAW2024! Visit AMRAware.ca/campaign/ to download and share: ✅5 Things to Know About AMR poster ✅5 Things social media graphics ✅Go Blue social headers + virtual backgrounds #AMRSymposium2024

It’s world AMR awareness week #WAAW Lots of evidence for shorter antibiotic durations for common infections Brief commentary here: www.cmaj.ca/content/196/...

Shorter courses of antibiotics

In Canada, an estimated 5400 deaths attributable to AMR occurred in 2018.[1][1] By 2050, 40% of infections will be resistant to first-line antimicrobials.[1][1] The pan-Canadian action plan on AMR has...

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Don't miss the Public Health Ontario rounds for #WAAW2024 Rethink the Rx: Reducing Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care Tuesday, Nov 19, 2024 | 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm EST 👇Register Here: www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Education...

Rethink the Rx: Reducing Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescribing in Primary Care | Public Health Ontario

This PHO Rounds provides practical, evidence-informed strategies for optimizing antibiotic use and preventing overprescribing in primary care.

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