Society guideline links: Antimicrobial stewardship

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This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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International

●World Health Organization (WHO): Global action plan on antimicrobial resistance (2015)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Using antibiotics wisely

●Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC): Pan-Canadian action plan on antimicrobial resistance (2023)

●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement on antimicrobial stewardship in daily practice – Managing an important resource (2014, reaffirmed 2020)

United States

●Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Core elements of antibiotic stewardship – For health care providers

●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Red Book

•Antimicrobial resistance (2024)

•Antimicrobial stewardship (2024)

●Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): Antimicrobial stewardship

•SHEA: A practical guide on principles of diagnostic stewardship (2023)

•SHEA: Statement on antibiotic stewardship in hospitals during public health emergencies (2022)

●AAP: Policy statement on antibiotic stewardship in pediatrics (2021)

●American College of Physicians (ACP): Best practice advice on appropriate use of short-course antibiotics in common infections (2021)

●Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA): Clinical practice guideline for the management of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy (2018)

●IDSA and SHEA: Guidelines for implementing an antibiotic stewardship program (2016)

Europe

●European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Directory of online resources for the prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and healthcare-associated infections (HAI)

●European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID): Guidelines for antimicrobial stewardship in emergency departments (2024)

●European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) and ESCMID Critically Ill Patients Study Group (ESGCIP): A position statement on antimicrobial de-escalation in critically ill patients (2020)

●ESCMID: Position paper on generic competencies in antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship – Towards a European consensus (2019)

●European Academy of Paediatrics (EAP): Statement – European Antibiotic Awareness Day: Training the next generation of health care professionals in antibiotic stewardship (2017)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on antimicrobial stewardship – Changing risk-related behaviours in the general population (2017)

●NICE: Quality standard on antimicrobial stewardship (2016)

●NICE: Guideline on antimicrobial stewardship – Systems and processes for effective antimicrobial medicine use (2015)

India

●National Neonatology Forum (NNF): Clinical practice guidelines on antibiotic stewardship in neonatal care (2021)

●Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR): Treatment guidelines for antimicrobial use in common syndromes (2019)

Australia–New Zealand

●Choosing Wisely Australia: Lists of recommendations – Antibiotics

●Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care: Antimicrobial stewardship clinical care standard (2020)

Japan

●[In English] Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW): Manual of antimicrobial stewardship, 3rd edition (2023)

●[In Japanese] Japanese MHLW: Guidance on the proper use of antimicrobials, third edition (2023)

●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: When antibiotics are needed and when they are not (2015)