Medicina Fluminensis, Vol. 54 No. 3, 2018.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.21860/medflum2018_203565
Antimicrobial stewardship
Vera Vlahović-Palčevski
orcid.org/0000-0003-0917-6566
; Klinički bolnički centar Rijeka, Odjel za kliničku farmakologiju, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Abstract
Antimicrobial stewardship is a strategy, a coherent set of actions which promote using antimicrobials responsibly. They can be applied from individual to global level in human and veterinary medicine and agriculture. Complying to these measures will ensure appropriate and responsible antimicrobial use and thus prolong their activity, decrease antimicrobial resistance, optimize patient outcome, decrease morbidity and mortality caused by multidrug resistant microorganisms and decrease costs.
Antimicrobial resistance has risen up the global agenda, resulting in a series of recommendations on responsible antimicrobial use.
Keywords
antimicrobial stewardship; antimicrobials; resistance
Hrčak ID:
203565
URI
Publication date:
1.9.2018.
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