Browsing by Author "Coetzee, R."

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    SASOCP position statement on the pharmacist’s role in antibiotic stewardship 2018
    (AOSIS Publishing, 2018) Schellack, N.; Coetzee, R.; Bronkhorst, E.; Godman, B.; Gous, A.G.S.; Kolman, S.; Labuschagne, Q.; Malan, L.; Messina, A.P.; Naested, C.; Schellack, G.; Skosana, P.; Van Jaarsveld, A.
    Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed medicines in global healthcare practice today. Their effectiveness is crucial and often life-saving in humanity’s battle against pathogens and infectious diseases. Antibiotic/antimicrobial stewardship strategies and programmes have become vital to the preservation of effective antibiotics and the optimisation of their use. The South African Society of Clinical Pharmacy (SASOCP) has written this guideline to outline the importance, role and purpose of pharmacists in such stewardship programmes, both in the public, as well as the private hospital sectors in South Africa. It also provides an overview of various approaches to antibiotic preservation, behavioural change, stewardship measures, and monitoring strategies.
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    Undergraduate antimicrobial stewardship training for pharmacy students: Creating a foundation for containment of antimicrobial resistance in South Africa
    (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2017) Khan, Y.; Boschmans, S.A.; McCartney, J.; Coetzee, R.
    To the Editor: The inappropriate and excessive use of antimicrobial agents has cultivated the development and progression of antimicrobial resistance worldwide, which has been recognised as a threat to global health and safety.[1] In response to this alarming growth in antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial stewardship initiatives, which aim to improve the judicious use of antimicrobial agents, have gained global support.[2] The Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy Framework in South Africa (SA) recognises the education of healthcare professionals as a strategy for containment of antimicrobial resistance in SA.[3]