Professional paper
Management of the antibiotic resistance problem – approach of the Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy
Silvija Šoprek
; Klinika za infektivne bolesti
Arjana Tambić-Andrašević
; Klinika za infektivne bolesti
John E. Degener
; Sveučilišni medicinski centar Groningen, Sveučilište u Groningenu, Groningen, Nizozemska
Abstract
In the past decades we are witnessing an increasing antibiotic resistance problem to which the EU Ministers of Health responded by issuing a "Council Recommendation on the prudent use of antimicrobial agents in human medicine" with the recommendation of establishing antimicrobial resistance surveillance systems and implementing measures to support the prudent use of antibiotics by setting evidence based guidelines. Intersectoral Coordinating Mechanisms (ICM) at national levels have been suggested as instruments of implementation. Consequently the Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (SWAB) was founded in the Netherlands, and the Interdisciplinary Section for Antibiotic Resistance Control (ISKRA) in Croatia. Good colaboration between the SWAB and the ISKRA started through the Matra Pre-Accession Programme (MPAP) project "Antimicrobial resistance surveillance in human medicine" of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Netherlands is the country with the lowest antibiotic consumption in Europe and with low antibiotic resistance rates in the majority of pathogens. However, resistance to some antibiotics is rising.
Keywords
antibiotics; resistance; management; ISKRA; SWAB
Hrčak ID:
50620
URI
Publication date:
4.12.2009.
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