TY - JOUR AU - Currie, Kay AU - Laidlaw, Rebecca AU - Ness, Valerie AU - Gozdzielewska, Lucyna AU - Malcom, William AU - Sneddon, Jacqueline AU - Seaton, Ronald Andrew AU - Flowers, Paul PY - 2020 DA - 2020/07/02 TI - Mechanisms affecting the implementation of a national antimicrobial stewardship programme; multi-professional perspectives explained using normalisation process theory JO - Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control SP - 99 VL - 9 IS - 1 AB - Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) describes activities concerned with safe-guarding antibiotics for the future, reducing drivers for the major global public health threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), whereby antibiotics are less effective in preventing and treating infections. Appropriate antibiotic prescribing is central to AMS. Whilst previous studies have explored the effectiveness of specific AMS interventions, largely from uni-professional perspectives, our literature search could not find any existing evidence evaluating the processes of implementing an integrated national AMS programme from multi-professional perspectives. SN - 2047-2994 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-020-00767-w DO - 10.1186/s13756-020-00767-w ID - Currie2020 ER -