It’s Get Smart About Antibiotics Week!

It’s Get Smart About Antibiotics Week!

It’s Get Smart About Antibiotics Week!

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 11/13/2012 09:28 AM EST

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It’s Get Smart About Antibiotics Week!

To kick off CDC’s 2012 Get Smart about Antibiotics Week, CDC and the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) unveil a consensus statement on antibiotic resistance with 22 national health organizations at a joint telebriefing this morning at 10 a.m. ET. 

Also today, on CDC’s Safe Healthcare Blog, Ramanan Laxminarayan, PhD, who directs the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, discusses the work that Extending the Cure (ETC) has done over the past five years around the critical issue of antibiotic resistance. Learn more about the content of this important policy statement as well as ETC’s updated ResistanceMap tool in Dr. Laxminarayan’s Safe Healthcare Blog posting at http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/

For the complete listing of Get Smart About Antibiotics Week activities and information, visit www.cdc.gov/getsmart.

To learn what clinicians and healthcare providers in nursing homes and inpatient settings can do to prevent antibiotic resistance, visit www.cdc.gov/getsmart/healthcare.

You can also join the conversation today during a live Get Smart About Antibiotics Week Twitter Chat with CDC Experts on the topic of antibiotic resistance from 1-3 p.m. ET at @CDC_eHealth #SaveAbx.