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Surveillance Metrics of Multidrug-resistant Organisms for Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in Healthcare Facilities

Ichiro KAWAMURA
Department of Infectious Diseases, Osaka International Cancer Institute

Surveillance in healthcare settings is a critically important component of any multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) control program and is useful for antimicrobial stewardship as well as infection control. Considering the circumstances where the activities of antimicrobial stewardship have recently begun in Japan, antimicrobial stewardship teams may not only monitor patients isolated with MDROs but may also assess the susceptibility patterns of MDROs in most healthcare facilities. This document describes useful and practical surveillance metrics of MDROs for antimicrobial stewardship program in healthcare settings.

Key words：multidrug-resistant organisms, surveillance, line list, susceptibility patterns, antibiogram

e-mail: i.kawamura＠mc.pref.osaka.jp

Received: April 2, 2019
Accepted: May 10, 2019

34 (4)：222─226,2019