To the Editor—Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) in an acute-care setting requires several important components:
hospital administration support, an appropriate ASP team
(eg, infectious disease physician(s) and pharmacist(s)), ASP program
goals and carefully planned interventions, a structured reporting system,
adequate hospital infrastructure, and mechanisms for education.
1 Examination of these components can provide a useful gap
analysis for acute-care hospitals in various resource settings to fulfill
the hospital ASP goals. To evaluate the feasibility of gap analysis based
on previous ASP consensus in Asia,1 we performed a survey of hospital
components and analyzed the gaps to help inform the implementation
of ASP in central Thailand
