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Antibiotics Aren't Always the Answer

Antibiotic resistance – when bacteria stop responding to the drugs designed to kill them – may be the single most important infectious disease threat of our time.
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Toolkit for Reduction of Clostridium difficile Infections Through Antimicrobial Stewardship

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE C. difficile) Project
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NQF, CDC issue guide to promote appropriate use of antibiotics in hospitals

The National Quality Forum, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Hospital Corporation of America today released a “
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Study highlights importance of preventing antibiotic resistance

A 30% reduction in the efficacy of antibiotics could increase infections and associated deaths for certain surgery and chemotherapy patients by 120,000 and 6,300 per year, respectively, according t
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Antibiotic stewardship resource for small, critical access hospitals available

The Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention, in partnership with the AHA, Pew Charitable Trusts and Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, today issued
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Fighting Antibiotic Resistance

This week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been shining a light on antibiotic resistance through their Get Smart about
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Becoming Better Stewards of Antibiotics

Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Pew Charitable Trusts released a study in JAMA and corres
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Using Antibiotics Wisely

Antibiotics are one of the great discoveries in medicine and the most important weapon in fighting bacterial diseases.
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Pew report profiles 10 inpatient antibiotic stewardship programs

A new report from the Pew Charitab
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National Spotlight on Antimicrobial Stewardship

National attention to the issue of antibiotic stewardship is increasing. Drug-resistant bacteria cause 2 million illnesses and about 23,000 deaths each year in the U.S., the CDC estimates.