In the news: antibacterial use in teaching hospitals
Who: Amy L. Pakyz, assistant professor of pharmacy, VCU School of Pharmacy; Conan MacDougall, assistant professor of clinical pharmacy, UCSF School of Pharmacy; Michael Oinonen, director, CDB/CRM/Data Quality, Clinical Data & Informatics, University HealthSystem Consortium; Ronald Polk, chairman, Department of Pharmacy, VCU School of Pharmacy
What: “Trends in Antibacterial Use in U.S. Academic Health Centers, 2002 to 2006” – a study concluding that antibacterial drug use appears to have increased at academic medical centers during that time period, primarily due to greater use of broad-spectrum agents and the antibiotic vancomycin
When: Nov. 10
Where: Achives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA/Archives journal
To read the entire article, click here.
To see how the study played out based on a JAMA/Archives news release, click on the following headlines:
- “Antibacterials getting more play in teaching hospitals”
- “Antibiotic use increases at academic medical centers” (also appearing at physorg.com, sciencedaily.com, infectioncontroltoday.com)
- “Hospitals use more antibiotics despite concerns” (also appearing at msnbc.com, alertnet.org, uk.biz.yahoo.com, news.yahoo.com)