Josephine W
josephinew.bsky.social
Josephine W
@josephinew.bsky.social
Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist based in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. 💊
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Highlighting undocumented off-label topical use of rifampicin during surgery in Australian hospitals, and opportunities for AMS #Antimicrobials2025 #ASA2025 #rifampicin #surgery #AntimicrobialStewardship @edraby.bsky.social #MattRawlins
February 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Two sides to every coin. Free range chooks - great for animal welfare, perhaps not so much for #AMS.

Allegra Schermuly presenting findings from focus groups on consumer attitudes to antibiotic use #ASA2025
February 21, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Combining NAUSP & NAPS datasets shows that in general restricted antibiotics have lower usage rates and higher appropriateness, but appropriateness of unrestricted antimicrobials should still be targets for AMS - Caroline Chen #Antimicrobials2025 @cazchen.bsky.social #surveillance #AMS
February 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Importance of combining appropriateness and consumption to form a more complete picture of antimicrobial use at a local hospital and national level.

@cazchen.bsky.social presenting a comparative analysis of 192 hospitals across two national programs.

@ausantibiotics.bsky.social #ASA2025
February 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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A huge amount of careful thought, validation work and technical gymnastics that went into the development of real time AMS reports for AMS teams.

Ms Jenna Maleki presenting on the development of dashboard reports in the Guidance application.

@ausantibiotics.bsky.social #ASA2025
February 20, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Pharmacist Josephine Wen discussing the value of concise targeted auditing tools in conjunction with larger point prevalence audits for AMS programs.

@ausantibiotics.bsky.social #ASA2025
February 20, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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A national audit of 200 hospitals showed ongoing poor prescribing in surgical prophylaxis, in particular with extended durations of post-operative prophylaxis.
Dr Courtney Ierano presenting the 2023 results of our Surgical NAPS program @ausantibiotics.bsky.social

#AMSsky #ASA2025
February 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Excited to showcase the work of our team at the @ausantibiotics.bsky.social conference

#ASA2025
February 20, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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What a way to wrap up Day 1 of #ASA2025 with our Director Prof Kas Thursky delivering the prestigious Howard Florey Oration. We’re so proud to be a part of her visionary work pioneering #AMS in Australia and internationally and driving the field forward.

@ausantibiotics.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Proud of our team of clinician researchers at the (unofficial) NCAS session at #ASA2025
February 20, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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#WAAW Day 2
So important for patients to have access to clear, relevant info on their antimicrobial therapy.

Our Patient Info leaflets have been developed by our team of pharmacists, physicians, are UI/UX designed with full consumer review.
www.ncas-australia.org/ClinicalFact...
#IDSky #AMSSky
November 18, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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#WAAW2024 Day 4
There always seems to be a medication shortage of some sort...

NCAS have developed medication shortage fact sheets for a range of common antimicrobials, with suggested alternatives based on the Australian Therapeutic Guidelines. #AMSsky #IDsky

www.ncas-australia.org/ClinicalFact...
November 21, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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For day 3 #WAAW2024, we are promoting the incredible work done by our vet colleagues in developing antimicrobial prescribing guidelines and #AMS program resources in companion animals, horses and cattle.

Links in comments

#AMSSky #Vetsky #OneHealth
November 19, 2024 at 10:40 PM
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And that’s a wrap! 🎬 A huge thanks to all the organizers and presenters for an absolutely fantastic NCAS #WAAW2024 Forum.

What a fabulous day of learning and catching up with our AMS colleagues.

See you all again at the next one!

#AMSsky
November 22, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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Thanks to all our new followers! We will be inviting our 3.9k Twitter X followers to join Bluesky!
November 10, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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For our Aussie followers, our NCAS World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW forum is on next Friday 22nd Nov at the Doherty Institute, Melbourne🌏
www.ncas-australia.org/antimicrobia...

A brilliant lineup of speakers will be presenting on the theme of building workforce capacity for AMS research.
November 12, 2024 at 10:14 AM
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If you haven’t followed @trubianojason.bsky.social yet…he is an international innovator and leader in allergy delabeling with programs developed for and by AMS experts
#PROSPECTOR1 ⛏️double blind pilot feasibility RCT of single dose vs. multi dose challenge for #penicillinallergy fully recruited! Can’t wait for the results… and PROSPECTOR2 to commence internationally in 2025! Stay tuned… #IDSky #MedSky #AISky
November 15, 2024 at 10:59 PM
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It's World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week! #WAAW

NCAS are proud to join the global community in highlighting the importance of #AMS education, research and training across One Health 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🐕‍🦺🌴

#IDSky #AMSSky
November 18, 2024 at 12:02 AM
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This #WAAW, we're highlighting some of our #AMS resources developed over the years.

First up, our 'What Are Antimicrobials?' posters have been translated into 18 languages. www.ncas-australia.org/ClinicalFact...

#AMSSky #IDSky
November 18, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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You can learn more about our centre on our website.
Lots of resources here as well links to our monthly webinars! #AMSsky

www.ncas-australia.org
www.ncas-australia.org
November 13, 2024 at 10:53 AM