Behavior-change interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture: A systematic review.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an economic, food security, and global health threat accelerated by a multitude of factors including the overuse and misuse of antimicrobials in the human health, animal health, and agriculture sectors. Given the rapid emergence and spread of AMR and the relative la...
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| description | Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an economic, food security, and global health threat accelerated by a multitude of factors including the overuse and misuse of antimicrobials in the human health, animal health, and agriculture sectors. Given the rapid emergence and spread of AMR and the relative lack of development of new antimicrobials or alternative therapies, there is a need to develop and implement non-pharmaceutical AMR mitigation policies and interventions that improve antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) practices across all sectors where antimicrobials are used. We conducted a systematic literature review per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines to identify peer-reviewed studies that described behavior-change interventions that aimed to improve AMS and/or reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use (AMU) among human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture stakeholders. We identified 301 total publications- 11 in the animal health sector and 290 in the human health sector-and assessed described interventions using metrics across five thematic areas- (1) AMU, (2) adherence to clinical guidelines, (3) AMS, (4) AMR, and (5) clinical outcomes. The lack of studies describing the animal health sector precluded a meta-analysis. Variation across intervention type, study type, and outcome precluded a meta-analysis for studies describing the human health sector; however, a summary descriptive analysis was conducted. Among studies in the human health sector, 35.7% reported significant (p<0.05) pre- to post-intervention decreases in AMU, 73.7% reported significant improvements in adherence of antimicrobial therapies to clinical guidelines, 45% demonstrated significant improvements in AMS practices, 45.5% reported significant decreases in the proportion of isolates that were resistant to antibiotics or the proportion of patients with drug-resistant infections across 17 antimicrobial-organism combinations. Few studies reported significant changes in clinical outcomes. We did not identify any overarching intervention type nor characteristics associated with successful improvement in AMS, AMR, AMU, adherence, nor clinical outcomes. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a5bfec8becf44abe8d55ff5e0d538d012025-08-20T03:32:23ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLOS Global Public Health2767-33752023-01-0135e000152610.1371/journal.pgph.0001526Behavior-change interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture: A systematic review.Jessica CraigAditi SriramRachel SadoffSarah BennettFelix BahatiWendy BeauvaisAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an economic, food security, and global health threat accelerated by a multitude of factors including the overuse and misuse of antimicrobials in the human health, animal health, and agriculture sectors. Given the rapid emergence and spread of AMR and the relative lack of development of new antimicrobials or alternative therapies, there is a need to develop and implement non-pharmaceutical AMR mitigation policies and interventions that improve antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) practices across all sectors where antimicrobials are used. We conducted a systematic literature review per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines to identify peer-reviewed studies that described behavior-change interventions that aimed to improve AMS and/or reduce inappropriate antimicrobial use (AMU) among human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture stakeholders. We identified 301 total publications- 11 in the animal health sector and 290 in the human health sector-and assessed described interventions using metrics across five thematic areas- (1) AMU, (2) adherence to clinical guidelines, (3) AMS, (4) AMR, and (5) clinical outcomes. The lack of studies describing the animal health sector precluded a meta-analysis. Variation across intervention type, study type, and outcome precluded a meta-analysis for studies describing the human health sector; however, a summary descriptive analysis was conducted. Among studies in the human health sector, 35.7% reported significant (p<0.05) pre- to post-intervention decreases in AMU, 73.7% reported significant improvements in adherence of antimicrobial therapies to clinical guidelines, 45% demonstrated significant improvements in AMS practices, 45.5% reported significant decreases in the proportion of isolates that were resistant to antibiotics or the proportion of patients with drug-resistant infections across 17 antimicrobial-organism combinations. Few studies reported significant changes in clinical outcomes. We did not identify any overarching intervention type nor characteristics associated with successful improvement in AMS, AMR, AMU, adherence, nor clinical outcomes.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001526 |
| spellingShingle | Jessica Craig Aditi Sriram Rachel Sadoff Sarah Bennett Felix Bahati Wendy Beauvais Behavior-change interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture: A systematic review. PLOS Global Public Health |
| title | Behavior-change interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture: A systematic review. |
| title_full | Behavior-change interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture: A systematic review. |
| title_fullStr | Behavior-change interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture: A systematic review. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Behavior-change interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture: A systematic review. |
| title_short | Behavior-change interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human health, animal health, and livestock agriculture: A systematic review. |
| title_sort | behavior change interventions to improve antimicrobial stewardship in human health animal health and livestock agriculture a systematic review |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001526 |
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