Making Healthcare Safer: Antibiotic Rx in Hospitals: Proceed with Caution: CDC Vital Signs: 3/4/2014

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• Alternative Title:
  Antibiotic Rx in hospitals : proceed with caution
• Journal Article:
  CDC Vital signs
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of the Associate Director for Communications.
• Description:
  Antibiotics save lives, but poor prescribing practices are putting patients at unnecessary risk for preventable allergic reactions, super-resistant infections, and deadly diarrhea. Errors in prescribing decisions also contribute to antibiotic resistance, making these drugs less likely to work in the future.
• Subjects:
  Anti-Bacterial Agents/therapeutic Use Bacterial Infections/drug Therapy Cross Infection/prevention & Control Drug Resistance, Bacterial
• Series:
  Vital Signs
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Popular Works
• Pages in Document:
  4 numbered pages
• Volume:
  2014
• Issue:
  3
• Citation:
  CDC Vital signs ; 2014 March
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2e4626f4a683c46ad154687dd076eb129795c889ada202b4499963e223d55983c3fb942a315a09abf8fdde738f4342c2e44ecfa880778a9da51826218fcfff92
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/22341/cdc_22341_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.41 MB ]