Use antibiotics effectively to reduce drug-resistance
Good management of antibiotics can halve the number of people picking-up drug-resistant infections in hospital, new data suggests.
Research, published in the Lancet, has found antibiotic stewardship programmes can reduce the number of hospital infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria by 51%. It also shows the number of people experiencing drug-resistant infections decreases further when infection control measures, such as good hand hygiene, are followed.
