Infectious Diseases
Hospital Pharmacy Success Stories from Across Canada
- Antimicrobial Stewardship Backgrounders: Connecting Pharmacists with Prescribers
S Fryters and J Slobodan, AB Branch Contest 2014 entry - Development of an Algorithm and an Antimicrobial Pre-Print Order Form for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection in hospitalized immunocompromised patients at the Cross Cancer Institute
Alberta Success Story Competition 2012 - Improving Vaccination Rates in Hospitalized Patients
Alberta Health Services, Alberta Success Story Competition Winner 2012 - Optimizing Perinatal HIV Outcomes: Pharmacist Contributions in a Collaborative Care Model
M Foisy, C Hughes, Winner, AB Branch Contest 2014 National Winner - We “PIC’D” our Battle: Pharmacist Intervention on C.Difficile
London Health Sciences Centre Team, ON Branch Contest 2014 Winner
Posters (member-only content)
- Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy: Experience at a Community Hospital. Anna Lee, BScPhm Pharm D, Susan John, BScPhm MD FRCP (C), Reena Lovinsky, MD FRCP (C) The Scarborough Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- Impact of an Antibiotic Stewardship Audit and Feedback Program on a General Internal Medicine Ward: A Before and After Study. Anna Lee, BScPhm Pharm D, Susan John, BScPhm MD FRCP (C), Reena Lovinsky, MD FRCP(C). The Scarborough Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Webinars (member-only content)
- Addressing Medication Errors in HIV-Positive Inpatients: A Clinician’s Guide to Antiretroviral Assessment
Handout
External Resources
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Resources are free unless otherwise indicated.
- Antimicrobial Stewardship. Public Health Ontario.
- Interim Guidance for Antiviral Prophylaxis and Treatment of Influenza Illness due to Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Virus (Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada)
- Medical Access to Artesunate or Quinine for Malaria Treatment Streamlined in Canada through the Canadian Malaria Network (Public Health Agency of Canada)
- The Use of Antiviral Drugs for Influenza: A foundation document for practitioners (Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada)
- Why Antimicrobial Stewardship is Important (a short animated video produced by the Mount Sinai Hospital – University Health Network Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in 2013)
- Government of Canada Vaccines and immunization website
- Immunize Canada
Consider joining our Infectious Diseases PSN! At our PSNs you can communicate with CSHP members from across the country. It's a great place to ask questions and receive advice from professionals working in the field.