Abstract

Antibiotic misuse and overuse is a common problem in ambulatory care settings. This problem will increase the rate of antibiotic resistance in both settings of ambulatory care and hospital setting. The project is a trial to implement ASP (Antibiotic Stewardship Program in an ambulatory care clinic within a network of ambulatory care centers in the emirate of Abu Dhabi UAE. Applying ASP in outpatient is challenging and till now has no standards. In this project antibiotic prescribing and consumption was estimated using DDD/100 patients visits and antibiotic prescription rate also the cost of antibiotics was estimated and all data of 2018 and 2019 after implementing ASP project were compared to the data of 2017.The implementation of the ASP project in ambulatory care had achieved reduction in both antibiotics prescription rate and DDD/100 patients’ visits.