Joint Statement on Importance of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship from 12 National Health Organizations

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) ; Pew Charitable Trusts. ; American Medical Association. ; Infectious Diseases Society of America. ; National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners. ; Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society. ; Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. ; Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists.
• Description:
  Antibiotics are fundamental to modern medicine. They are essential to treat a wide spectrum of infections from routine streptococcal throat infections to life-threatening sepsis and to prevent infections in patients undergoing surgery and chemotherapy. However, the spread of antibioticresistant bacteria has placed the world on the precipice of what public health leaders call a “postantibiotic” era in which even simple surgical procedures could be complicated by deadly infections. In the United States alone, at least two million Americans acquire a serious antibiotic-resistant infection each year, with an estimated 23,000 deaths as a direct result.
  
  Joint-Statement-on-Importance-of-Outpatient-Antibiotic-Stewardship-with-logos.pdf
  
  
• Subjects:
  Antimicrobial Stewardship Cooperative Behavior Cross Infection/prevention & Control Drug Resistance, Bacterial Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial Infection Control Patient Compliance
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:6e2aa2abf830e40fc84c71322b9d39b7ce527a825a7384b29fd579d20d56a5a6
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/156484/cdc_156484_DS1.pdf
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