antimicrobial stewardshippalliative careThe antibiotic optimisation imperative is now ubiquitous, with national policy frameworks in Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) countries incorporating the requirement for antimicrobial stewardship within healthcare services. Yet in practice, the ...
the researchers added. For example, there might be some medical or physiological futility to a treatment the patient requested, like a patient requesting antibiotics for the common cold. Declining that treatment course is not medical gaslighting; it'santibiotic stewardship. ...
and revealing how the antibiotic interacts with it, the team hoped to boost dermatologists' understanding of narrow-spectrum antibiotics and how they can enhance the practice of antibiotic stewardship during acne treatment, which is often a long-term process. The team published its findings ...
The BBE campaign is just one part of the important hand decontamination initiative but there is a danger that the importance of the message about hand hygiene will be lost in the debate about specific components of the programme. There is, however, an argument that healthcare workers who roll...
This will include implementation of good antibiotic stewardship to minimise the selective pressure for these resistant organisms. Antibiotics are life-saving magic bullets that are essential for modern medical practice but they are a finite resource. Resistance is a Darwinian certainty and it can have ...
And I think that’s such an important point, too, you brought up about antibiotics because it really makes me wonder. I know we’ve seen all these news stories about overuse of antibiotics in humans and how this is leading to superbug, superbugs, and antibiotic-resistant bugs. And then ...
a“Burle Marx was prescient in his reverence for plants and his stewardship of the whole nursery, for his ability to see the garden both as an aesthetic experiment and also as part of the ecology,” Ms. Van Lengen said. “That’s the challenge for today’s landscape architects, to bring...
in order to identify the specific bacteria, as well as it’s antibiotic sensitivity. This provides the clinician with a guide as to which antibiotic is the most appropriate for the type of infection. This also helps promote antibiotic stewardship and reduce the overuse of antibiotics, especially ...
This is what we call a tragedy of the commons: one doctor’s decision to prescribe an antibiotic that isn’t necessary doesn’t create a global public health crisis. But when millions of doctors make these treatment decisions for many more millions of patients — well, we have a big probl...
Why can't I prescribe that antibiotic? The role of antimicrobial stewardship programmes in modern medicine. Internal Medicine Journal 39 :10.1111/imj.2009.39.issue-10, 636-638 /Hayashi Y, Davis L, Paterson DL. Why can't I prescribe that antibiotic? The role of antimicrobial stewardship ...