By involving the end users in the design and evaluation, we have been able to provide a practical and relevant APS tool for quantitative and qualitative data collection in a wide range of Australian hospital settings.
This study helps us to identify where efforts should be focused to facilitate the establishment of antimicrobial stewardship programmes in regional and rural hospitals, by describing the gaps and limitations of current programmes and the major issues currently being faced, providing recommendations to better guide activities that support regional and rural hospitals.
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