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COPYRIGHT 2001 Healthcare Purchasing News
* The vigilance of hospital infection control practitioners weighs heavily in the success of a large new government program aimed at reducing disease-causing bacteria that resist curative drugs.
Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services finished an action plan to reduce antimicrobial resistance, giving marching orders to 10 government agencies and departments to carry it out. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, is the lead implementation agency.
Effective infection control methods will reduce patient illnesses, resulting in less reliance on antimicrobial drugs, better known as antibiotics. A number of healthcare professionals see this presumed scenario benefiting not only patients but also hospitals' financial bottom lines.
Among more than 80 action items, the plan's top strategies confront antimicrobial resistance...
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