Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic Resistance: It Can Happen To You
Special thanks to NFID Director Sara E. Cosgrove, MD, MS, for this guest blog post for US Antibiotic Awareness Week on November 18-24, 2019, to raise awareness of the threat of antibiotic resistance and the importance of appropriate antibiotic use …
Antibiotic Resistance: A Pressing Public Health Issue
Each year in the US, more than two million individuals become sick with infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and more than 23,000 die as a result of these infections. Antibiotic resistance happens when bacteria develop the ability to defeat the drugs designed to kill them…
Improving Conversations about Appropriate Antibiotic Use
Antibiotic resistance is a pressing public health issue, and together we can reduce this threat by optimizing antibiotic use and empowering ourselves to give the best care. Everyone can play a role in improving how antibiotics are prescribed and used so that these drugs are available when we need them the most.
Presidential Order Pushes Mandatory Antimicrobial Stewardship: Is Your Hospital Prepared?
If everyone — healthcare providers, hospital administrators, policy makers, and patients — works together to employ effective Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs, we can improve patient care, more effectively combat antibiotic resistance, and ultimately save lives.
Antibiotic Stewardship – We Must Act Now!
Thank you to Mary Lou Manning, PhD, CRNP, CIC, President-elect, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), for this guest post on the importance…
Antimicrobial Stewardship—It Takes a Village
Last week, more than 300 pharmacists and physicians gathered to discuss the importance of antimicrobial stewardship at the 2014 MAD-ID Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL.…
8 Things Everyone Should Know About Antibiotic Resistance
Every year in the US, more than 2 million people get infections that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a result.…
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