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Table 2 Possible facilitators of AMS

From: Health care systems administrators perspectives on antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention and control programs across three healthcare levels: a qualitative study

Facilitators

Response

The presence of an already functional Drug and Therapeutics Committee (DTC)

T1: we already have a crop of professionals who are interested in this program, the necessary professionals are present in this hospital

T2: the DTC has been inaugurated and can be built on

S2: DTC, currently due to staff strength depletion, the committee is not meeting up to its responsibility. It’s a new committee. The pandemic made transfer of staff to the isolation center for Covid, that has affected its running

S3: the DTC which is functional. we have already set up an AMS group which if not for Covid would have kick-started. Our present leadership is kind of interested in making it happen

T2: DTC in the hospital, we have taken the initiative of grooming a pharmacist to go for training and inform the management through the DTC

Information technology unit

T3: The information technology unit in the hospital can be leveraged on. For example, the antibiogram I talked about can be generated from the infrastructure already on ground