Despite widespread acceptance of antimicrobial stewardship programs, there remains an element of the healthcare infrastructure that questions the value of an infectious disease physician-lead antimicrobial stewardship program.
Data such as this continues to support the concept that an infectious disease physician-lead antimicrobial stewardship program is the fundamental basis to dealing with multi-drug resistant organisms.
Javeed Siddiqui, MD MPH
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