Ian M. Gould / Jos W.M. van der Meer (eds.)

Antibiotic Policies: Fighting Resistance

Herausgegeben:Gould, Ian M.; van der Meer, Jos W.M.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume continues the tradition of the editors' first volume, Antibiotic Policies: Theory and Practice, by assembling contributions from experts around the world concerned with responsible antibiotic resistance and fighting resistance. This volume looks at many of the crucial issues of resistance in a clinical context, with an emphasis on MRSA; surely the greatest challenge to our antibiotic and infection control policies that modern health care systems have ever seen. Other fascinating chapters explore the psychology of prescribing, modern management techniques as an adjunct to antibiotic policies, and the less obvious downsides of antibiotic use. Lastly, several chapters from authors living in Mediterranean countries give a perspective from an area of the world with some of the greatest problems in antibiotic use and resistance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer US / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11425915, 978-0-387-70840-9
• 2008
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780387708409
• ISBN-10: 0387708405
• Artikelnr.: 22773470

Autorenporträt

Ian M. Gould, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK / Jos W.M. van der Meer, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Inhaltsangabe

Consequences of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy: Overgrowth, Resistance, and Virulence.- The Process of Antibiotic Prescribing: Can It Be Changed?.- Cultural and Socioeconomic Determinants of Antibiotic Use.- Electronic Prescribing.- Prevalence Surveys of Antimicrobial Use in Hospitals: Purpose, Practicalities, and Pitfalls.- Antibiotic Use in Hospitals in the United States SCOPE-MMIT Antimicrobial Surveillance Network.- New Hospital Initiatives in Fighting Resistance.- Antimicrobial Resistance: Preventable or Inevitable?.- Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance in the Mediterranean Region.- Cystic Fibrosis-Coping with Resistance.- Community-Acquired Pneumonia-Back to Basics.- Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia: Diagnostic and Treatment Options.- Optimizing Antimicrobial Chemotherapy in the ICU-A Review.- Risk Assessment for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus.- What Do We Do with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Surgery?.- Control of Healthcare-Associated Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus.