Institutional governance and responsiveness to antimicrobial resistance: a qualitative study of Australian hospital executives.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite escalating antimicrobial resistance (AMR), implementing effective antimicrobial optimisation within healthcare settings has been hampered by institutional impediments. This study sought to examine, from a hospital management and governance perspective, why healthcare providers may find it challenging to enact changes needed to address rising AMR.

Design

Semistructured qualitative interviews around their experiences of antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) and responsiveness to the requirement for optimisation. Data were analysed using the framework approach.

Setting

Two metropolitan tertiary-referral hospitals in Australia.

Participants

Twenty hospital managers and executives from the organisational level of department head and above, spanning a ra

SUBMITTER: Broom J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8647559 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature