ESCMID Global 2025, Vienna

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• Global-PPS results:
  • A standardised approach for measuring outpatient antimicrobial use data: development and evaluation of the outpatient global point prevalence survey
  • Identifying predictors for antibiotic use: a global point prevalence survey study among 130 hospitals in Belgium, the Philippines and South Africa
• Global-PPS partnerships:
  • Harmonisation trajectory of Global-Point Prevalence Survey (Global-PPS) and WHO-PPS
  • Implementation of hospital antimicrobial stewardship in Europe using a data-driven behaviour change approach: insights from the drive-AMS EU project
• Philippines:
  • The global point prevalence survey (Global-PPS): quality indicators for antimicrobial use for adult patients in the Philippines, 2017-2023
  • Antimicrobial stewardship implementation in a Philippine tertiary hospital: a seven-year surveillance of surgical prophylaxis prescribing practices
• ADILA project:
  • Benchmarking hospital antibiotic use in ten countries: comparing observed versus expected empiric use based on the WHO AWaRe antibiotic book

ESCMID Global 2024 (former ECCMID), Barcelona

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• Global-PPS results:
  • Antimicrobial prescribing in emergency wards in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Georgia and the United Kingdom: first results from the outpatient Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance
  • Determinants and opportunities of antimicrobial stewardship implementation in hospitals in low- and middle- income countries: a qualitative study
• Nigeria:
  • The global point prevalence survey of antimicrobial consumption and resistance (Global-PPS): Results on outpatient antimicrobial prescribing in Calabar, Nigeria
  • First result from the outpatient module of the Global-PPS identifies key action points for antimicrobial stewardship among ten health facilities in Lagos, Nigeria
• Philippines:
  • The global point prevalence survey (Global-PPS): surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis in the Philippines from 2017-2022
  • Implementing antimicrobial stewardship in a Philippine tertiary care hospital: a five-year analysis of repeated point prevalence surveys for monitoring and quality improvement
• South-Africa: Antimicrobial prescribing in three public hospitals of rural South-Africa in 2023: results from the global point prevalence survey
• Rwanda: A comparison of antimicrobial prescription between a Belgian and Rwandan tertiary care hospital using the Global Point Prevalence Survey (Global-PPS) tool
• ADILA project:
  • Observed vs expected levels of empirical antibiotic usage based on the WHO AWaRe antibiotic book: a new benchmarking tool
  • Does antibiotic formulation provide reasonable estimates of antibiotic use across different sectors?

SBIMC-BVIKM Symposia

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Read the abstract booklet : Antimicrobial Stewardship: Integrating Theory, Practice, and Technology

Download the Global-PPS poster on antimycotic and antifungal prescribing patters in Belgium

IP2023 Liverpool

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Global-PPS poster: International Learning Opportunity. Results of a Prescribing Point Prevalence Survey in Eastern Uganda.

ECCMID Copenhagen 2023

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• Global-PPS: Antimycotic and antifungal prescribing patterns worldwide: results from the Global Point Prevalence Survey on Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance 
• Philippines (2 posters):
  • Antimicrobial use for healthcare-associated pneumonia in the Philippines from 2017-2021: results from the global point prevalence survey (Global-PPS) 
  • Results of the antimicrobial use point prevalence survey in private and public hospitals in the Philippines from 2019 to 2021 
• Guatemala: The global point prevalence survey of antimicrobial consumption and resistance (Global-PPS): results of antimicrobial prescribing in 4 Guatemalan hospitals in 2021 
• Zambia: Measuring antimicrobial use in Zambia: results from the Global-PPS for six health facilities 
• Kenya & Tanzania: The global point prevalence survey of antimicrobial consumption and resistance (Global-PPS) results from public and private hospitals in Kenya and Tanzania in 2021 

ECCMID Lisbon 2022

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• The Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance (Global-PPS): 2021 results of antimicrobial prescribing for COVID-19 patients in The Philippines
• Antibiotic prescribing for surgical prophylaxis in 15 Philippine Hospitals: results from a 4-year surveillance period using repeated point prevalence surveys
• Assessing the availability of forgotten antibiotics through the Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance (Global-PPS)
• The Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance (Global-PPS) Results of Antimicrobial Prescribing in Montenegro in 2021
• The Global Point Prevalence Survey of use of antibiotics in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Georgia. What the pandemic has changed?

The 15th Professor Alborzi International Congress of Clinical Microbiology, Shiraz, Iran – 2021

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Download the Global-PPS presentation: The Global-PPS – From data collection to AMS actions 

Online 31st ECCMID 2021

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• Worldwideprescribing of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis: 2015-2020 Global-PPS results
• Monitoring of quality indicators for antibiotic use in Belgian hospitals
• The Global-PPS as a Tool to Support Antimicrobial Stewardship: Longitudinal results in 10 Hospitals in the Philippines
• Longitudinal Global-PPS in Nigeria: progress, challenges and prospects
• Pattern of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in 18 Nigerianhospitals
• Repeated Global-PPS in Sanandaj hospitals, Iran: an implication for antibiotic stewardship
• The Global-PPS in Cote d’Ivoire

The Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Society of Nigeria (CLIMIDSON) Conference 26-27 November 2020

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The 3rd international Nursing Congress on Prevention Strategies for HAI, Mashhad, Iran – 2020

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Download the abstracts: published in the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Journal; Volume 8, Supplement 1 

ASM Microbe 2020

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Download the ASM 2020 poster: PPS of antimicrobial use in 5 secondary hospitals in West Side Saitama prefecture, Japan. Focus on pneumonia therapy.

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The 14th Professor Alborzi International Congress of Clinical Microbiology, Mashhad, Iran – 2020

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Download the abstracts published in the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Journal; Volume 8, Supplement 1

International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine – ESICEM Brussels 2019

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ECCMID Amsterdam 2019

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• High proportion of paediatric prophylactic antibiotics use: analysis from 56 countries’ point prevalence survey data
• The Global-PPS: Socioeconomic and environmental factors may contribute more to multi-drug resistance in gram-negative bacterial infections than antibiotic prevalence in hospital settings
• The Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance (Global-PPS): Antimicrobial Prescribing Quality Indicators in Egyptian hospitals
• The Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance (Global-PPS): First results of antimicrobial prescribing in 5 Mexican Hospitals
• Results of the Global and ECDC Point Prevalence Surveys of Antimicrobial Use and Healthcare-Associated Infections in Belgian Acute Care Hospitals in 2017
• The Global and ECDC Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Use and Healthcare-Associated Infections: Antimicrobial Prescribing and Outcomes of Urinary Tract Infections in Belgium
• The Global Point Prevalence Survey of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance (Global-PPS): Results of antimicrobial prescribing in India
• Prescribing Pattern of Antifungal Agents in 18 Brazilian Hospitals: a Point Prevalence Survey
• Using antibiotic Point Prevalence Survey data to estimate Healthcare-associated infection prevalence in children: analysis of 27 countries

Interviews from the key Global-PPS participant meeting pre-ECCMID:

Jorgen Stassijns, MSF, 2019
Prof. Goossens, UA, 2019
Daouda Sissoko, bioMérieux Africa, 2019

Canada

Mexico

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• Video 2

ICPIC 2019 (International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control), Geneva, Switzerland

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Download the oral presentation on Healthcare-Associated Infections – Results of the 2017 and 2018 Global-PPS

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• Quantity and quality of antibiotic prescribing for sepsis in hospitalised adults: results of the 2015, 2017 and 2018 Global-PPS
• Assessing the learning needs and barriers for implementation of antimicrobial stewardship in hospitals that have participated in the Global PPS
• Antimicrobial prescribing patterns in healthcare-associated Infections in 27 Brazilian hospitals: 2017 and 2018 point prevalence surveys
• The Global-PPS: results of antimicrobial prescribing in Burkina Faso
• The Global-PPS: 2015 , 2017 and 2018 results of antimicrobial prescribing for pneumonia in Georgia
• The Global-PPS: results of antimicrobial prescribing for a general hospital in Urmia, Iran
• The Global-PPS: 2018-2019 results for hospital-acquired pneumonia in 8 Mexican hospitals
• The Global-PPS: results of antimicrobial prescribing in Togo
• The Global-PPS: 2018 results of antimicrobial prescribing for healthcare-associated infections in Tunisia

ID week 2019 – Washington DC

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Download the Global-PPS poster: Quantity and Quality of Antimicrobial Prescribing for Inpatients with Pneumonia in the Philippines in 2018

XVI-HISICON 2019, Kolkata, India

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WSPID 2019 – Manila, Philippines

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Download the presentation: Global-PPS 2015, 2017, 2018 : Results of global antimicrobial prescribing for paediatric community-acquired and healthcare-associated pneumonia”

ASLM (African Society for Laboratory Medicine) 2018 – Preventing and Controlling the Next Pandemic: The Role of the Laboratory, Abuja, Nigeria

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Global-PPS in Kenia
Global-PPS in Tunisia
Global-PPS in Nigeria

Antibiotic Resistance: From Research to Action, 59th Colloquium of the ITM, 5-7 December 2018, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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Presentation on the Global-PPS at Angkor Hospital for Children

Presentation on the Global-PPS: Results of Antimicrobial Prescribing in India

Presentation on Antibiotic Prescribing for Adults and Children with Pneumonia in the Philippines

Journée Infections Nosocomiales, 10ème édition, 20 November 2018, Lyon, France

The Global Point Prevalence Survey: Antimicrobial Consumption and Healthcare-Associated Infections

2nd Call to Action on Antimicrobial Resistance, 19-20 November 2018, Accra, Ghana

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Lunch session Global-PPS loop presentation

Pioneers session Global-PPS presentation

7th ICAN congress, Cape Town, South Africa 2018

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State-of-the-art lecture on Global-PPS

Prophylactic antimicrobial use for surgical procedures in Egypt

Global-PPS and antimicrobial quality indicators

Egyptian experience using Global-PPS tools

Evidence of poor laboratory use as a barrier to antimicrobial stewardship in Nigerian hospitals

Global-PPS: results of antimicrobial prescribing in Guinea in 2017

Global-PPS method presentation post-congress workshop

XIX Congreso de Calidad Asistencial del Principado de Asturias, Spain 2018

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Congreso SEIMC (Sociedad Española de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiología Clínica), Bilbao, Spain, 2018

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Download the Global-PPS oral presentation on empiric use of antibiotics in hospitals in Andalucía, Spain

ECCMID Madrid 2018

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29th international Congress of Pediatrics, 26-29 October 2017, Tehran, Iran

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The 11th Professor Alborzi International Clinical Microbiology Congress, 21-23 November 2017, Shiraz, Iran

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Download the presentation on Antibiotic Resistances Profiles

10th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, Antwerp, Belgium, 2017

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• ECTMIH-2017 – Costa Rica
• ECTMIH-2017 – Guinea
• ECTMIH-2017 – Ghana

ECCMID congress, Vienna 2017

Characteristics of Antimicrobial Prescribing in Cancer Patients
Usefulness of Survey Data in the Evaluation and Management of Sepsis

The 2017 BSAC Spring conference : The Global Challenge of Multi-drug Resistant Gram Negative Bacterial Infections

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Download the presentation:“Burden and current global management on GNB infections: Lessons from the Global-PPS of Antimicrobial Consumption and Resistance in 335 Hospitals Worldwide”

The Institut Pasteur International Network Symposium 2016, Paris, France

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Paediatric Infectious Diseases Meeting – ESPID 2016

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Gulf Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Disease, May 2016, Dubai, UAE

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Download the poster: Dr. Mushira Enani from the King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia won the 1st award with her global-PPS poster presented during the 1st Gulf Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Disease, 4-7 May 2016, Dubai, UAE.

The 10th International Congress on Clinical Microbiology in Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran 2016

Presentation of global results as well as Iranian (two tertiary hospitals) and East-South Asian results

AMMI Conference Canada 2016

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ECCMID Amsterdam 2016

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• ECCMID-2016_Australia
• ECCMID-2016_Albania
• ECCMID-2016_Belgium
• ECCMID-2016_CHILE
• ECCMID-2016_Israel
• ECCMID-2016_England
• ECCMID-2016_Japan
• ECCMID-2016_Kosovo
• ECCMID-2016_Nigeria
• ECCMID-2016_prophylactic use_worldwide
• ECCMID-2016_Russia
• ECCMID-2016_Slovenia
• ECCMID-2016_Serbia
• ECCMID-2016_Slovenia_longitudinal
• ECCMID-2016_South-Africa
• ECCMID-2016_The Netherlands
• ECCMID-2016_USA
• ECCMID-2016_pneumonia_worldwide

World HAI/Resistance Forum 2015

• Watch the video below to see an interview with the lead investigator of the Global-PPS on the occasion of the 5^thedition of the World HAI/Resistance Forum in June 2015.
• Read the bioMérieux press release

Infectious Diseases Society of America 2015

ID-week poster
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Baltic Paediatric Congress 2015

• BPC Poster
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