ULS São João (promoting entity in Portugal), ULS Tâmega e Sousa and IPOP were the pioneering Portuguese centers, which were joined a year ago by five more institutions: ULS Braga, ULS Gaia/Espinho, ULS Região de Aveiro, ULS Santa Maria and ULS São José. These eight hospitals already have sixteen quality improvement interventions underway in the use of antibiotics, with the aim of reducing individual and collective collateral damage from the use of antibiotics and, in this way, reducing the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
In this newest edition of the course, eight additional teams from eight new institutions were formed: ULS Nordeste, ULS Alto MInho, ULS Alto Ave, ULS Coimbra, ULS Esttuário do Tejo, ULS Almada-Seixal, ULS Amadora-Sintra, ULS Lisboa-Ocidental, thus expanding the Portuguese drive-AMS network to sixteen national hospitals.