ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2011
"Ten Commandments" for the Appropriate use of Antibiotics by the Practicing Physician in an Outpatient Setting.
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- Community-level antibiotic access and use (ABACUS) in low- and middle-income countries: Finding targets for social interventions to improve appropriate antimicrobial use - an observational multi-centre study.Wellcome open research · 2017Article
- Estrategia de control de la resistencia bacteriana a los antimicrobianos en Argentina.Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2017Article
- Antibiotic prescription behaviours in Lao People's Democratic Republic: a knowledge, attitude and practice survey.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2015Article
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Abstract
A multi-national working group on antibiotic stewardship, from the International Society of Chemotherapy, put together ten recommendations to physicians prescribing antibiotics to outpatients. These recommendations are: (1) use antibiotics only when needed; teach the patient how to manage symptoms of non-bacterial infections; (2) select the adequate ATB; precise targeting is better than shotgun therapy; (3) consider pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics when selecting an ATB; use the shortest ATB course that has proven clinical efficacy; (4) encourage patients' compliance; (5) use antibiotic combinations only in specific situations; (6) avoid low quality and sub-standard drugs; prevent prescription changes at the drugstore; (7) discourage self-prescription; (8) follow only evidence-based guidelines; beware those sponsored by drug companies; (9) rely (rationally) upon the clinical microbiology lab; and (10) prescribe ATB empirically - but intelligently; know local susceptibility trends, and also surveillance limitations.
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