4^th International Conference on Medical & Clinical Microbiology June 09-10, 2020 Singapore City, Singapore

Biography:

Dr Florence Saddler, Dr Saarah Rana and Dr Sally Grice completed this quality improvement project in 2019 at the Queen Alexandara Hospital in Portsmouth, England. Dr Florence Saddler and Dr Sally Grice were foundation year 2 doctors having qualified from Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia in 2017. Dr Saarah Rana was also a foundation year 2 doctor who qualified in 2017 from Barts and the London School of Medicine, London.

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Each year thousands of lives are lost due to antibiotic-resistant infections. In order to combat the alarming rise in antibiotic resistance in the UK, guidance has been published by organisations such as the World Health Organisation and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence to help govern the use of antibiotics (see separate reference doc). In 2018 our team conducted an audit investigating antimicrobial stewardship on the general surgical wards at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. This demonstrated poor compliance to the national guidance in the UK on safe antimicrobial prescribing. Our initial intervention was creating posters on the correct procedure of prescribing antibiotics in key clinical areas to promote good practice. A re-audit showed a minor improvement in compliance however this was not significant and consequently we looked into different ways of changing clinical practice. We chose to explore whether educating the prescribers about the importance of antibiotic stewardship and the clinical significance of that would be a more effective method of changing practice.

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