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Antibiotic Awareness Week: Why It Matters
Antibiotics are medicine's first line of defense against infectious disease. Since the 1940s, antibiotics such as penicillin have greatly reduced illness and death from such diseases, making antibiotics a true modern medical success story. Unfortunately, these drugs are a victim of their own achievements. They have been used so widely and for so long that the bacteria that they are designed to kill have evolved and adapted, leading to antibiotic resistance and rendering the drugs less effective.
It’s Prime Time for Nursing Homes: New AHRQ Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide Available
Antimicrobial medications, including antibiotics, are a classic double-edged sword. Used properly, antibiotics save lives, fighting life-threatening infections by killing the bacteria that cause them. But used improperly, antibiotics can be ineffective, and even harmful, and can render the drugs powerless for future use. Antimicrobial stewardship programs (ASPs) are a proven method to improve the use of antibiotics.
Working To Prevent and Eliminate MRSA Infections
As the United Nations decreed last week, antibiotic-resistant infections are a global threat. When bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, routine infections can be life-threatening. One of the best-known antibiotic-resistant bacteria is MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Healthy people often carry MRSA on their skin and in their noses without developing an infection.
Fifteen years after To Err is Human: a success story to learn from
Preventable harm is a major cause of preventable death worldwide. In late 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released To Err is Human,1 a report that riveted the world's attention to between 44 000 and 98 000 patient deaths annually in the USA from medical errors. Progress towards reducing these harms has proven difficult because healthcare lacks robust mechanisms to routinely measure the problem and estimates of the magnitude vary widely.
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