Antimicrobial Stewardship in Acute Care

PHO promotes and supports antimicrobial stewardship as an effective strategy for limiting inappropriate and excessive antimicrobial use, while improving and optimizing antimicrobial therapy and clinical outcomes for patients. Since 2013, Accreditation Canada mandates that all acute care facilities have an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP).

There are a number of ways to initiate and sustain an ASP. Click on the links below to find resources and tools to help build your stewardship program.

Sub Topics

Exploring ASP in Action

These are the stories of hospitals who have implemented antimicrobial stewardship programs. They have shared barriers, successes, tools and resources of their programs.

Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies

Tools, interventions and activities that can be used to improve antimicrobial use in hospitals.

Antimicrobial Stewardship – Frequently Asked Questions

Questions and answers related to the implementation, interventions and methods of measuring outcomes of Antimicrobial Stewardship programs.

Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (ASP) & Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Comparison Tool

This tool allows you to easily access, search and filter, and download information on antimicrobial stewardship programs, and AMU and AMR data from across Ontario.

Event

PHO Rounds: Preventing Childhood Asthma: The Neglected Impacts of Antibiotic Stewardship and Human Milk Exposure in Infants

This session of PHO Rounds presents a recently concluded study of 600,000 Canadian children in two provinces, showing that this association is operating in populations at a scale that may help to explain observed tempering of the asthma epidemic.

Contact the Department

asp@oahpp.ca

Updated 11 Aug 2020