Nurses spend much time with the patient and put antimicrobial therapy into effect: they prepare, administer, and monitor the effects of antimicrobial treatment and possibly related critical events.
Consequently, monitoring programs have been designed to monitor the occurrence of antimicrobial resistant bacteria.
An open-label randomised clinical trial was designed to compare the efficacy and tolerance of levofloxacin and ciprofloxacin plus phenethicillin for the prevention of bacterial infections in patients with high-risk neutropenia, and to monitor the emergence of antimicrobial resistance.
Active surveillance including molecular typing can help to detect and monitor the spread of antimicrobial drug-resistant organisms, and thus trigger timely control interventions.
The aim of our study was to develop a concise and therefore feasible set of QIs to measure and monitor the appropriateness of antimicrobial use in adults with sepsis admitted to a general medical ward and/or ICU.
In 1996, NARMS was established to prospectively monitor the patterns of antimicrobial-drug resistance among human enteric pathogens, including nontyphoidal Salmonella isolates received at select public health laboratories in the United States (8 ).
pneumoniae are required to monitor the clonal prevalence and antimicrobial resistance in this important human pathogen.
