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Book Description
This volume examines 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 chapters explore the
psychology of prescribing, modern management techniques as an adjunct to
antibiotic policies, and the less obvious downsides of antibiotic use.
Antibiotic resistance has reached epidemic proportions in most hospitals
and many communities around the world. While control methods have
traditionally (and usually unsuccessfully) relied on preventing cross
infection it is increasingly obvious that new solutions are needed.
There is growing evidence that the solution will lie in more careful use
of antibiotics in the future. The golden age of antibiotic therapy has
gone, probably for good and prescribers (and society at large) will have
to accept that, in future, antibiotics will not be the "cure all" we
have been accustomed to. This book addresses many of the key issues
taxing our society and hospitals in an era of epidemic resistance and
shortage of new antibiotics. Written by internationally renowned experts
in the field, this volume will provide practical advice and inform
control strategies for the most urgent of problems related to antibiotic
resistance epidemic for years to come. Antibiotic Policies: Fighting
Resistance is an ideal volume for health professionals with an interest
in this field.
