Keywords:
Drug resistance in microorganisms -- United States.
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Drug resistance in microorganisms -- Government policy -- United States.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Our ability to treat common bacterial infections with antibiotics goes back only 65 years. However, the authors of this report make it clear that sustaining a supply of effective and affordable antibiotics cannot be without changes to the incentives facing patients, physicians, hospitals, insurers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. In fact, increasing resistance to these drugs is already exacting a terrible price. Every day in the United States, approximately 172 men, women, and children die from infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals alone. Beyond those deaths, antibiotic resistance is costing billions of dollars through prolonged hospital stays and the need for doctors to resort to ever more costly drugs to use as substitute treatments. Extending the Cure presents the problem of antibiotic resistance as a conflict between individual decision makers and their short-term interest and the interest of society as a whole, in both present and future: The effort that doctors make to please each patient by prescribing a drug when it might not be properly indicated, poor monitoring of discharged patients to ensure that they do not transmit drug-resistant pathogens to other persons, excesses in the marketing of new antibiotics, and the broad overuse of antibiotics all contribute to the development and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The book explores a range of policy options that would encourage patients, health care providers, and managed care organizations to serve as more responsible stewards of existing antibiotics as well as proposals that would give pharmaceutical firms greater incentives to develop new antibiotics and avoid overselling. If the problem continues unaddressed, antibiotic resistance has the potential to derail the health care system and return us to a world where people of all ages routinely die from
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781936331086
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=592502
DDC:
616.9/041
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Extendingthe Cure -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Executive Summary -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Antibiotic resistance: The unfolding crisis -- Chapter 2. The epidemiology of antibiotic resistance: Policy levers -- Chapter 3. Patient and physician demand for antibiotics -- Chapter 4. The role of health care facilities -- Chapter 5. T he role of the federal government -- Chapter 6. T he role of health insurance -- Chapter 7. Supply-side strategies for tackling resistance -- Chapter 8. Next steps -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Biographies -- Consultation Participants.
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