Description
Presents critical concepts, principles, and rationale to improve, update, and adapt antimicrobial utilization to maximize outcomes and minimize resistance and costs. Designed to provoke discussion regarding both contemporary and tested concepts and strategies for the treatment of infectious diseases, this book compiles chapters on topics ranging from the economics of drug-resistant infections and the management of antimicrobial use to new information on methods to optimize the selection, route of administration, dosing, and duration of antimicrobial therapies for common infections. In addition to offering ideas on studied programmatic approaches for judicious utilization of antimicrobial agents, this reference discusses practical means to track intervention outcomes through benchmarking.
