Clinical Impact of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs in Colombian Acute Care Hospitals
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Antimicrobial Stewardship: The Need to Cover All Bases
Increasing antimicrobial resistance has necessitated an approach to guide the use of antibiotics. The necessity to guide antimicrobial use via stewardship has never been more urgent. The decline in anti-infective innovation and the failure of currently available antimicrobials to treat some serious infections forces clinicians to change those behaviors that drive antimicrobial resistance. The m...
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