The start of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week saw the REVERSE implementation and antibiotic stewardship teams gathering alongside the participants from Cohort 4 hospitals in Zurich for the final ABS intervention workshop.

The completion of this last workshop marks a major milestone for the REVERSE project, with all participating hospitals and active cohorts having received both their infection prevention and control (IPC) and antibiotic (ABS) implementation intervention training. 

These two-day events are a key factor in the project - engaged clinical staff are critical to the successful implementation of both IPC and ABS strategies. The teams from work packages 1, 4, an 5 were in attendance sharing knowledge and empowering participants. As always, the programme was an interactive collection of both lectures delivered by some    of the arenas key opinion leaders and hands-on group work from the participants. 

Drs. Walter Zingg, Ashlesha Sonpar, Lauren Clack, Bianca Albers, and Pilar Retmar-Gentil were joined by PhD candidates Elena Carrara, Laura Caci, and Kathrin Blum to tackle topics including:

• State-of-the-art: ABS
• ABS within REVERSE
• Appropriate antibiotic prescriptions 
• Real-world case studies from medicine, surgery, haematology, and intensive care 
• Implementation science - the How and the What
• The role of the implementation teams in enhancing ABS
• Involving key hospital stakeholders in ABS
• Goal setting, identifying barriers and facilitators 
• Selecting and adapting context-specific implementation strategies 
• Data collection and monitoring implementation strategies 

 

"Human and organisational behaviour is at the heart of many infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship activities. Our implementation science efforts focus on collaborating with and learning from the individuals an organisations that bring guidelines from theory into practise". - Prof. Lauren Clack, Implementation Lead for the REVERSE Project.