American Osteopathic Association

Reframing Antimicrobial Stewardship as Systems Governance: Aligning Regulation, Diagnostics, Antibiotic Use Measurement, and Surveillance to Address Antimicrobial Resistance

Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is often framed as a set of prescribing-focused interventions aimed at optimizing antibiotic selection, dose, route of administration, and duration. In practice, AMS also functions as a systems discipline. Embedded within governance and regulatory...