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Annotated Bib - 6 views

started by Kristen Bautz on 29 Oct 09 no follow-up yet

Another possible popular source? - 3 views

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Possible annotation for Nursing Times article (review article) - 2 views

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Antibiotic resistance: how it arises, the current ...[Nurs Times. 2009 Sep 15-21] - - P... - 1 views

preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...19835196
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  • Kristen Bautz on 28 Oct 09
     
    I think that this is a good review source. It summarizes the findings of several studies about the nature of antibiotic resistance (which we would need as background for our topic).

Possible annotation for the LATIMES article - 3 views

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Drug-resistant germs adapt, thrive beyond hospital walls -- latimes.com - 2 views

www.latimes.com/...207230231jul23,0,1348640.story
shared by erin carroll on 27 Oct 09 - Cached
  • spreading from hospitals into the community at unprecedented rates.
  • These new super germs--stronger, more elusive and deadlier--have multiplied for decades inside thousands of hospitals
  • But, increasingly, microorganisms survive for days, even months. And they have developed the ability to breed most anywhere.
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  • Victims developed strains of pneumonia, blood poisoning and dozens of other infections rarely identified outside hospitals as recently as five years ago.
  • spurred by a long-standing practice to rapidly treat patients with antibiotics but not invest in the more time-consuming efforts to locate the sources of germs, federal studies show.
  • ided by cost-saving strategies to discharge patients quickly. In the 1970s, the average stay was about seven days for most patients. Today, stays at most hospitals average three days,
  • Most infections are not detectable during the first three days after exposure, so doctors commonly flood patients with antibiotics, even when they're not sure an infection is present. Health-care researchers cite this practice as one of the chief culprits behind the rise in drug resistance.
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