التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Evaluating Antibiograms To Monitor Drug Resistance |
| المؤلفون: |
Mohamed El-azizi, Adnan Mushtaq, Cheryl Drake Jerry Lawhorn, Joan Barenfanger, Steven Verhulst, Nancy Khardori |
| المساهمون: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: |
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/c2/8b/Emerg_Infect_Dis_2005_Aug_11(8)_1301-1302.tar.gz |
| المجموعة: |
CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: |
We used hospital antibiograms to assess predominant pathogens and their patterns of in vitro antimicrobial resistance in central Illinois, USA. We found a lack of information about national guidelines for in vitro antimicrobial susceptibility testing and differences in interpretation among laboratories in the region. Anumber of databases are available in the United States to monitor antimicrobial resistance at a national level (1). The academic and educational value of these databases is particularly useful for microbiologists and infectious disease clinicians. However, databases are unlikely to prove useful in improving antimicrobial use in the communities for a number of reasons: 1) most antimicrobial drug prescriptions in the community are written by primary care physicians, 2) most primary care physicians do not use these resources, and 3) industry-generated data are often used to highlight a particular antimicrobial drug. Even for infectious disease clinicians, national databases serve as a general guide, particularly during the initial or presumptive phase of antimicrobial therapy when culture results are not available. For tertiary care/referral hospitals, a substantial percentage of patients are transferred from community hospitals outside the local area. Under these circumstances, resistance surveillance data from these areas would help select presumptive therapy or change existing therapy. Very often, when patients have been treated with empiric antimicrobial drugs, the culture results at the tertiary care institutions may be negative or do not detect the infecting organism. To overcome these difficulties and improve the outcome of serious infections in the referral area for our institution, we monitored resistance patterns in the region and generated a regional antibiogram, which will be shared with all participating hospitals. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
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| اللغة: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.270.6818 |
| الاتاحة: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.270.6818 |
| Rights: |
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| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.147E6602 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
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