Guidelines for primary care (including diagnosis - quick reference guides)

• To provide a simple, best guess approach to the treatment of common infections
• To promote the safe, effective and economic use of antibiotics
• To minimise the emergence of bacterial resistance in the community

 

Guidance for management of bacterial infections resistant to carbapenem antibiotics
Issued to consultant medical microbiologists and infection control specialists across the UK, January 2011

• To advise how hospital laboratories can best detect carbapenem-resistant bacteria; 
• To emphasise how the effective use of good infection control practices, such as screening and isolation of high risk patients, can help to contain the spread of infection;  
• To describe the few treatment options that do remain

 

British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy - working groups [external link]
Relevant BSAC working parties provide guidelines on specific infections.

 

Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America - position papers [external link]
Shlaes DM, et al. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Infectious Diseases Society of America Joint Committee on the Prevention of Antimicrobial Resistance. Guidelines for the prevention of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1997; 18(4):275-291.

Strausbaugh LJ, et al. Long-Term-Care Committee. Antimicrobial resistance in long-term-care facilities. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1996; 17(2)129-140.

Nicolle LE, et al. SHEA Long-Term-Care Committee. Antimicrobial use in long-term-care facilities. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 1996; 17(2)119-128.

• The Resistance Alert System
  Added/updated: 29 July 2009