Determining a future policy focus to support antimicrobial stewardship in community pharmacy: A modified Delphi study.

Background: Over the past decade, the pharmacy sector's policy, academic and professional spheres have increasingly drawn attention to the opportunities to better leverage the untapped potential of the community pharmacy sector in contributing to global efforts to reduce antimicrobial resistance (AMR). While efforts are in train, progress is slow.

Objective: To draw insights from global experts in the field to identify a broad range of potential future policy directions to support community pharmacists' involvement in antimicrobial stewardship (AMS).

Consumer perceptions of community pharmacists' involvement in antimicrobial stewardship: A quantitative study.

Background Community pharmacist involvement in antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) within primary care is underutilised. Despite this view being consistently held across the pharmacy sector's policy, academic and professional spheres, there is limited understanding of how this positioning aligns with consumers' perceptions and expectations. Objective To explore participants' experience using antibiotics and their engagement with pharmacists to support their use.

Community pharmacists as antimicrobial guardians and gatekeepers - A qualitative study of the perspectives of pharmacy sector stakeholders.

Background: Community pharmacists, as primary care providers, are an underutilised resource in antimicrobial stewardship (AMS). Primary care plays an important role in tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as the principle of balancing access to antimicrobials while ensuring optimal use is agnostic to health setting. Understanding the sector's perceptions and practices towards AMS involvement is a continuing focus area of research.

Review of position statements on antimicrobial resistance and stewardship from professional pharmacy organisations.

Introduction: Pharmacists play a key role in tackling the global public health threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) through contributing to antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) practices. Professional pharmacy organisations describe this AMS role in position statements. Understanding how this role is described, including the why and potential impact is a first step to understanding how this issue is described to the profession, and framed in advocacy.

Exploring the representation of antimicrobial resistance and stewardship in Australian pharmacy media: a content analysis.

Objectives: Tackling the global health threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) requires a whole of system effort, which includes the involvement of pharmacists. However, the nature and extent of their current involvement may be shaped by content published in the media, including in professional publications. This study aimed to explore content inclusions relating to AMR and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in pharmacy focussed professional publications as a foundational step to understanding the impact of media content on pharmacists' behaviour relating to AMS.

Exploring the use of entertainment-education YouTube videos focused on infection prevention and control.

Background: As a communications strategy, education entertainment has been used to inform, influence, and shift societal and individual behaviors. Recently, there has been an increasing number of entertainment-education YouTube videos focused on hand hygiene. However, there is currently no understanding about the quality of these videos; therefore, this study aimed to explore the social media content and user engagement with these videos.