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Open AccessThe role and utilisation of public health evaluations in Europe: a case study of national hand hygiene campaigns
Evaluations are essential to judge the success of public health programmes. In Europe, the proportion of public health programmes that undergo evaluation remains unclear. The European Centre for Disease Preven...
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The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) collects data on carbapenem resistance from invasive bacterial infections. Increasing percentages of carbapenem resistance in K. pneumoniae is...
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Cultural and Socioeconomic Determinants of Antibiotic Use
Widespread antimicrobial resistance among bacterial pathogens has compromised traditional therapy with narrow-spectrum antibiotics and may result in adverse outcomes. Although no region in the world has been e...
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Applications of Time-series Analysis to Antibiotic Resistance and Consumption Data
During the past 20 years, there have been numerous attempts to study the relationship between antimicrobial use and resistance using surveillance data. The method presented here represents another of those att...
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Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in the Intensive Care Unit
The strategies used to prevent infections can be characterized as primary, secondary, or tertiary, depending primarily on the respective position of the preventive action and exposure to the pathogen [1]. Immu...
