Acknowledgements
This free course was collaboratively written by Olga Perovic and Dawn Harmon, and was reviewed by Priya Khanna, Claire Gordon and Hilary MacQueen. The course was reviewed and updated by Priya Khanna, Hilary MacQueen, Clare Sansom and Rachel McMullan in 2025.
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Images
Course image: gorodenkoff/iStock/Getty Images Plus.
Figures 1, 3, 5 and 8: courtesy of Professor Olga Perovic.
Figure 2: World Health Organization, https://adoptaware.org/.
Figure 4: McKinnon and Davis, 2004.
Figure 6: Al-Dorzi et al., 2013.
Figure 7: Padmanabhan, 2014.
Figure 9: Afdal, A. ‘Quality measures’, taken from https://www.futurelearn.com/ info/ courses/ antimicrobial-stewardship-for-africa/ 0/ steps/ 50501.
Figure 11: model for improvement taken from ‘Science of improvement: how to improve’, http://www.ihi.org/ resources/ Pages/ HowtoImprove/ ScienceofImprovementHowtoImprove.aspx.
Text
Activity 7: Global-PPS, https://www.global-pps.com/.
Tables
Table 1: Truong et al., 2021.
Videos
Videos 1 and 4–7: British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (BSAC), https://www.bsac.org.uk/.
Videos 2 and 3: WHO, n.d. 3.
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