Operationalizing an adverse event detection surveillance system to support antimicrobial stewardship activities: perceptions and insights from the SHEA research network

In this national survey, stewardship experts favored simple, laboratory-based ADE definitions although there were tensions between feasibility, ability to identify attribution without chart review, and importance of specific ADE. Although a surveillance system for measuring patient-level antimicrobial adverse drug events (ADE) may support stewardship activities, design and implementation questions remain.

Al Lawati HJ, Harvey KL, Shin M, et al. Operationalizing an adverse event detection surveillance system to support antimicrobial stewardship activities: perceptions and insights from the SHEA research network. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 2024;45(12):1468-1471. doi:10.1017/ice.2024.141