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[Quality assurance in intensive care medicine. SARI-surveillance on antibiotic use and bacterial resistance in intensive care units].
Der Anaesthesist - 1 May 2004
Meyer E, Schroeren-Boersch B, Schwab F, Jonas D, Rüden H, Gastmeier P, Daschner F D
Abstract excerpt
Intensive care units (ICUs) are high risk areas for emergence and spread of multiresistant bacterial pathogens. In Germany, there are no representative epidemiological data on antibiotic resistance, prophylactic or therapeutic use of antibiotics in ICUs, or on the correlation between antibiotic use and emergence of resistance. Supported by the German Ministry of Science and Education, project SARI (Surveillance...
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