Antibiotic Policies

Antibiotic Policies—A Historical Perspective.- Guideline Implementation: It is Not Impossible.- UK Guidelines: Methodology and Standards of Care.- Pneumonia Guidelines in Practice.- Collecting, Converting, and Making Sense of Hospital Antimicrobial Consumption Data.- How Do Measurements of Antibiotic Consumption Relate to Antibiotic Resistance?.- Quantitative Measurement of Antibiotic Use.- Benchmarking.- Experiences with Antimicrobial Utilisation Surveillance and Benchmarking.- Interventions to Optimise Antibiotic Prescribing in Hospitals: The UK Approach.- Improving Prescribing in Surgical Prophylaxis.- Audits for Monitoring the Quality of Antimicrobial Prescriptions.- Multidisciplinary Antimicrobial Management Teams and the Role of the Pharmacist in Management of Infection.- Antibiotic Policy—Slovenian Experiences.- Intensive Care Unit.- The Real Cost of MRSA.- Antifungal Agents: Resistance and Rational Use.- Strategies for the Rational Use of Antivirals.- Disinfection Policies in Hospitals and the Community.- The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance within Patients.- Impact of Pharmacodynamics on Dosing Schedules: Optimizing Efficacy, Reducing Resistance, and Detection of Emergence of Resistance.- Types of Surveillance Data and Meaningful Indicators for Reporting Antimicrobial Resistance.- Data Mining to Discover Emerging Patterns of Antimicrobic Resistance.- Applications of Time-series Analysis to Antibiotic Resistance and Consumption Data.- Biocide Use and Antibiotic Resistance.- Interventions to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing in the Community.- Education of Patients and Professionals.- The Influence of National Policies on Antibiotic Prescribing.- Antibiotic Use in the Community.- Antibiotic Use in the Community: The French Experience.- Antibiotic Policies inDeveloping Countries.- Antimicrobial Resistance and its Containment in Developing Countries.- Antibiotic Use in Animals—Policies and Control Measures Around Europe.- The Pharmaceutical Company Approach to Antibiotic Policies.- Antibiotic Use—Ecological Issues and Required Actions.