TY - JOUR
T1 - Antimicrobial ethicists
T2 - Making ethics explicit in antimicrobial stewardship
AU - Yen, Christina F.
AU - Cutrell, James B.
N1 - Funding Information:
No financial support was provided relevant to this article.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
PY - 2021/7/30
Y1 - 2021/7/30
N2 - Antimicrobial prescribing and the associated discipline of antimicrobial stewardship have inherent ethical and moral dimensions. We contend that the explicit, formal application of ethical principles and frameworks can strengthen and further justify the value of antimicrobial stewardship programs and their work. To illustrate the value of this process, we highlight 3 ethical scenarios that antimicrobial stewardship programs regularly encounter at the prescriber, institutional, and societal levels, and we analyze these scenarios using the Beauchamp and Childress biomedical ethics framework.
AB - Antimicrobial prescribing and the associated discipline of antimicrobial stewardship have inherent ethical and moral dimensions. We contend that the explicit, formal application of ethical principles and frameworks can strengthen and further justify the value of antimicrobial stewardship programs and their work. To illustrate the value of this process, we highlight 3 ethical scenarios that antimicrobial stewardship programs regularly encounter at the prescriber, institutional, and societal levels, and we analyze these scenarios using the Beauchamp and Childress biomedical ethics framework.
KW - Antimicrobial resistance
KW - Antimicrobial stewardship
KW - Medical ethics
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U2 - 10.1017/ash.2021.181
DO - 10.1017/ash.2021.181
M3 - Review article
C2 - 36168479
AN - SCOPUS:85123836795
SN - 2732-494X
VL - 1
JO - Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology
JF - Antimicrobial Stewardship and Healthcare Epidemiology
IS - 1
M1 - e17
ER -