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Review
. 2019 Mar 29;16(3):e1002774.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002774. eCollection 2019 Mar.

A whole-health-economy approach to antimicrobial stewardship: Analysis of current models and future direction

Monsey McLeod  1   2 , Raheelah Ahmad  2 , Nada Atef Shebl  3 , Christianne Micallef  4 , Fiona Sim  5   6 , Alison Holmes  2
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Review

A whole-health-economy approach to antimicrobial stewardship: Analysis of current models and future direction

Monsey McLeod et al. PLoS Med. .

Abstract

In a Policy Forum, Alison Holmes and colleagues discuss coordinated approaches to antimicrobial stewardship.

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Conflict of interest statement

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CM has received travel grants to attend scientific conferences from Astellas, Gilead, Pfizer, and Novartis and educational grants from Pfizer and Novartis. CM has attended a Pfizer Advisory Board Meeting and consulted for Astellas. MM has received an educational grant for a medication safety workshop held in November 2017 from Pfizer, unrelated to this study.

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Fig 1
Fig 1. An overview of the extent of multisectoral AMS integration for each of the 16 AMS initiatives identified.
The integration framework is based on all six facets of critical health system function defined by Atun and colleagues [16,18] (Table 1). AMS, antimicrobial stewardship.
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