Figure 2From: Year in review 2012: Critical Care - respiratory infectionsFrequency of antibiotic therapy in relation to positive results obtained from different types of body sites, evaluated before and after antibiotic stewardship program (ASP) implementation. The ASP consisted of a series of education, consultation, and reinforcement methods and was able to successfully reduce the use of antibiotics for patients with positive cultures from non-sterile sites and increase the use of antibiotics for positive cultures from sterile sites. Reprinted with permission from BioMed Central [33].Back to article page