I am interested to know how our healthcare community can make regional antibiograms be effectively implemented and standardized across different healthcare facilities to ensure consistency and accuracy in monitoring antibiotic resistance patterns?
I am also interested in the process of how this goal can be implemented.
Antibiotic resistance patterns vary from region to region. Hence, it is important to develop an antibiogram for every healthcare facility. The goal can be achieved by following these steps:
i) The first step should be collection of data. This data includes the bacteria isolated from various samples such as pus, urine, blood etc. Then the susceptibility profiles of these bacteria should be evaluated.
ii) Second step is the analysis of data. The data obtained should be now analyzed and simplified to convert these in the form of tables.
iii) Now the antibiogram can be developed by compiling these tables.
iv) The final step is reporting this data to the administration of regional health care facility. Using these type of antibiograms, empirical therapy guidelines can be effectively established and implemented which can help in combatting the increasing threat of antibiotic resistance.
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