When participating in the Global-PPS, online data entry is an important step. We have now created a set of tutorial videos to guide you through the process of online data entry, validation and reporting.
At the 31st edition of ECCMID, Global-PPS participants from Nigeria, Belgium, the Philippines, Cote d’Ivoire, and Iran will present seven abstracts making use of the Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance.
On 5 April 2021, the Global-PPS team published a paper in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy that focuses on hospital antibiotic prescribing patterns in adult patients according to the WHO Access, Watch and Reserve classification (AWaRe).
2020 CLIMIDSON conference in Nigeria Our Nigerian participants proudly launched their first (virtual) annual scientific conference of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Society of Nigeria (CLIMIDSON): “Antimicrobial Stewardship: Time to…
The 31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), will take place in Vienna, Austria from 9 – 12 July 2021. Abstracts can be submitted from 11 January to 24 February 2021.
Dr. Irma Korinteli, a pediatrician and lecturer at Tbilisi State Medical University, has been involved in the Global-PPS project from the very beginning in 2015. Earlier this year, she successfully defended her PhD on antibiotic use in Georgian hospitals. Read her testimonial below!
In 2021, we will launch a series of webinars in which we will introduce the Global-PPS methodology and discuss updates to the protocol and data entry application.
The Global-PPS protocol is adapted to survey COVID-19 patients. The website is translated in French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. More languages will follow. Read two nice stories on how the Global-PPS is rolled out at national level and how these data can be used for a PhD.
Global-PPS data used for a PhD Having a Ph.D. was a dream for me and it was yet to be fulfilled after my MPhil studies. This was enkindled by my…
The Global-PPS in Iran primarily started in 2015 in two large Iranian University cities, namely Shiraz and Kurdistan Universities of Medical Sciences, concurrently with the first global attempt for data collection about antibiotic consumption conducted by the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
As countries worldwide are faced with an unprecedented pandemic, there is a profound concern that widespread antibiotic use in COVID-19 patients could increase the selective pressure for antibiotic resistance.
New protocol – optional HAI module The Global-PPS protocol has been updated with an optional Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) module. This new module allows analyzing additional quality indicators, focusing on the…
Grants in Antwerp Three participants from Brazil, Egypt and The Philippines took a training on hospital-based interventions to contain antibiotic resistance in low-resource setting at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp…
Global-PPS newsletter – December 2018 The Global-PPS moves ahead in 2019! Read more about past events and future plans in our first newsletter.
First Global-PPS results will be presented at ECCMID Read the first overall Global-PPS results on antibiotic prescribing and resistance in adults, published in the Lancet Global Health. We invite Global-PPS…