@article{8ef82e9830674f7ca00ed8b5d86bd3ee,
title = "From intermittent antibiotic point prevalence surveys to quality improvement: experience in Scottish hospitals",
abstract = "In 2008, the Scottish Antimicrobial Prescribing Group (SAPG) was established to coordinate a national antimicrobial stewardship programme. In 2009 SAPG led participation in a European point prevalence survey (PPS) of hospital antibiotic use. We describe how SAPG used this baseline PPS as the foundation for implementation of measures for improvement in antibiotic prescribing.",
keywords = "Scottish hospitals, infection control, antibiotics",
author = "William Malcolm and Dilip Nathwani and Peter Davey and Tracey Cromwell and Andrea Patton and Shona Cairns and Marion Bennie and Jacqui Reilly",
note = "{\textcopyright} 2013 Malcolm et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ",
year = "2013",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1186/2047-2994-2-3",
language = "English",
volume = "2",
journal = "Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control",
issn = "2047-2994",
publisher = "BioMed Central Ltd.",
number = "3",
}
