TY - JOUR
T1 - Fight antibiotic resistance - it's in your hands to improve antibiotic stewardship
AU - Bashir, Amreen
AU - Gray, J.
N1 - © 2017, Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PY - 2017/4
Y1 - 2017/4
N2 - The public health threat emanating from the emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria is well known. Each year the World Health Organization (WHO) SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign promotes a different theme; the call to action in this year’s annual ‘Global Hand Hygiene Day’ on May 7th, 2017, is ‘Fight antibiotic resistance – it’s in your hands’.1 Good hand hygiene is widely acknowledged as the single most important measure to prevent infections in hospital. However, it would be naive to believe that hand hygiene alone will solve the problems posed by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB).
AB - The public health threat emanating from the emergence and spread of multidrug-resistant bacteria is well known. Each year the World Health Organization (WHO) SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign promotes a different theme; the call to action in this year’s annual ‘Global Hand Hygiene Day’ on May 7th, 2017, is ‘Fight antibiotic resistance – it’s in your hands’.1 Good hand hygiene is widely acknowledged as the single most important measure to prevent infections in hospital. However, it would be naive to believe that hand hygiene alone will solve the problems posed by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB).
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jhin.2017.02.018
DO - 10.1016/j.jhin.2017.02.018
M3 - Letter, comment/opinion or interview
AN - SCOPUS:85014655863
SN - 0195-6701
VL - 95
SP - 361
EP - 362
JO - Journal of Hospital Infection
JF - Journal of Hospital Infection
IS - 4
ER -