Introducing the ABX guide: an open-access antibiotic treatment-guide (AbX Guide) focussed on pathogen-directed treatment in the South and South East Asia region

Tuesday 12 November

10.00-11.00 CET

Programme

Welcome & Introductions
Heiman Wertheim

The Why of the AbxGuide / The importance of treatment guidelines in routine care
Heiman Wertheim

Core presentations

AbxGuide: What is in it and what is not?
Teske Schoffelen

Stepped-wedge trial of a Lao language antibiotic prescribing app against paper guidelines
Vilada Chansamouth

Moderated Panel Discussions

Q&A / session wrap up

Speaker bio

Vilada Chansamouth is an infectious disease physician and senior researcher at the Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit (LOMWRU), based in Vientiane, Lao PDR. She works as a government staff at the Microbiology Laboratory, Mahosot Hospital, under the Ministry of Health. Vilada has led hospital antimicrobial use surveys across Laos and played a key role in developing the country's first antimicrobial prescribing guidelines, both in pocketbook and mobile app formats. Her current research evaluates the impact of these guidelines in in- and outpatients across six hospitals in Laos.