Infectious diseases pose new pressures but provide new opportunities for health care.
Many hospitals are beginning to make inroads in lowering the rates of infections occurring throughout their facilities. However, the emergence of new drug-resistant organisms, shorter stays in hospitals, greater reliance on out-patient care, sicker patients, and increasing numbers of invasive surgical procedures still stir new concerns about the problems posed by infectious diseases.
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D003140:Communicable Disease Control; D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology; D004352:Drug Resistance, Microbial; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014640:Vancomycin / Q000627:therapeutic use
D014640:Vancomycin