Mechanisms affecting the implementation of a national antimicrobial stewardship programme; multi-professional perspectives explained using normalisation process theory

Abstract Background Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) describes activities concerned with safe-guarding antibiotics for the future, reducing drivers for the major global public health threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), whereby antibiotics are less effective in preventing and treating infections...

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Published in:	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
Main Authors:	Kay Currie, Rebecca Laidlaw, Valerie Ness, Lucyna Gozdzielewska, William Malcom, Jacqueline Sneddon, Ronald Andrew Seaton, Paul Flowers
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2020-07-01
Subjects:	Antimicrobial stewardship programme Multi-professional perspectives Qualitative research Normalisation process theory
Online Access:	http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13756-020-00767-w