Antibiotic Policies

Foreword; S. Levy. Preface. 1. Antibiotic Policies - a Historical Perspective; I. Phillips. 2. Guideline Implementation: It is not Impossible; P.A. Gross. 3. UK Guidelines: Methodology and Standards of Care; D. Nathwani. 4. Pneumonia Guidelines in Practice; G. Barlow. 5. Collecting, Converting and Making Sense of Hospital Antimicrobial Consumption Data; S. Natsch. 6. How Do Measurements of Antibiotic Consumption Relate to Antibiotic Resistance? R.L. White. 7. Quantitative Measurement of Antibiotic Use; F.M. MacKenzie, I.M. Gould. 8. Benchmarking; H. Westh. 9. Experiences with Antimicrobial Utilisation Surveillance and Benchmarking; C.M. Dollman. 10. Interventions to Optimise Antibiotic Prescribing in Hospitals: The UK Approach; E.M. Brown. 11. Improving Prescribing in Surgical Prophylaxis; J.W.M. van der Meer, M. van Kasteren. 12. Audits for Monitoring the Quality of Antimicrobial Prescriptions; I.C. Gyssens. 13. Multidisciplinary Antimicrobial Management Teams and the Role of the Pharmacist in Management of Infection; K. Knox, W. Lawson, A. Holmes. 14. Antibiotic Policy - Slovenian Experiences; M. Cicaron>man, B. Beovic. 15. Intensive Care Unit; H. Hanberger, D.L. Monnet, L.E. Nilsson. 16. The Real Cost of MRSA; S.J. Dancer. 17. Antifungal Agents: Resistance and Rational Use; F.C. Odds. 18. Strategies for the Rational use of Antivirals; S.M.L. Waugh, W.F. Carman. 19. Disinfection Policies in Hospitals and the Community; E. Alp, A. Voss. 20. The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Within Patients; I.R. Booth. 21. Impact of Pharmacodynamics on Dosing Schedules: Optimizing Efficacy, Reducing Resistance and Detection of Emergence of Resistance; J.W. Mouton. 22. Types of Surveillance Data and Meaningful Indicators for Reporting Antimicrobial Resistance; H.M. Richet. 23. Data Mining to Discover Emerging Patterns of Antimicrobic Resistance; J.A. Poupard, R.C. Gagnon, M.J. Stanhope. 24. Applications of Time Series Analysis to Antibiotic Resistance and Consumption Data;