5 Interventions

AMS interventions describe regulations and guidelines at facilities and clinical decision-making at patient level. The following sections provide more detail on facility and patient-level AMS strategies.

You might also like to look at an AMS toolkit developed for use by inpatient facilities in England, ‘Start smart, then focus’ [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] , as an example of a strategy that is proving useful in a high-income country. This was last updated in 2023.

4 Local guidelines and surveillance for antimicrobial prescribing