DASON Digest

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In this episode, host April Dyer discusses the recently published research brief, "Seven Days, Seven Quests: Gamification to Enhance Engagement with Antimicrobial Stewardship Resources During Antibiotic Awareness Week," by Meghan N. Jeffres and colleagues, published in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology (ASHE) in 2026. The authors describe an innovative Antibiotic Awareness Week campaign that leveraged gamification to engage healthcare professionals with antimicrobial stewardship resources through daily puzzles, decision trees, clinical scenarios, and interactive challenges. The article can be viewed here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13104535/

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In this episode of the DASON Digest, host Dr. Libby Dodds Ashley is joined by Drs. Brad Langford and Amy Kang to discuss their scoping review on antimicrobial stewardship program resourcing and outcomes. They review the current evidence evaluating how stewardship staffing and resource allocation impact antimicrobial use, clinical and economic outcomes, and share key insights for future projects and directions related to stewardship staffing. The article reviewed in this episode can be found here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13124438/

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In this episode of the DASON Digest, DASON Clinical Pharmacist Liaison, Dr. Jeannette Bouchard, highlights key posters and clinical pearls from the MAD-ID and SIDP 2026 Annual Meeting, including oral antibiotic transitions, Bayesian vancomycin dosing, renal dose adjustments in septic shock, personalized antibiograms, and greener antimicrobial stewardship practices.

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In this episode of the DASON Digest, we discuss Chris Bland's study on IV push cefepime for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the implications of these findings. The article can be found here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41166592/

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Join ID Pharmacy Resident Paul Puccio as he speaks with Dr. Arielle Cohen, an ID Fellow at Duke University, is about the antimicrobial updates in the 2026 Surviving Sepsis Campaign guidelines. They focus on timing of antibiotic initiation, antimicrobial coverage, and rapid diagnostic tests and what this means for the treatment of sepsis and septic shock. The guidelines can be viewed here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41870560/

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