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Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2002) 49, 3-5
© 2002 The British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

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Antimicrobial resistance surveillance: methods will depend on objectives

Deirdre Lewis,*

CDSC South West, Public Health Laboratory, Gloucester GL1 3NN, UK

At the meeting in March 2001 at the Royal Society of Medicine1 there was agreement about the need for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance, but a lack of clarity in the objectives. Palmer, in his thought-provoking introduction, made the points that the aims and objectives of a surveillance programme should be clear at the outset, that passive routine surveillance should be simple, with minimal data requirements, and that the programme should be formally evaluated. The CDC have recently published their latest guidelines for evaluating public health surveillance systems.2 These guidelines include assessment of a number of the attributes of a system, including simplicity, flexibility, data quality, acceptability, representativeness, timeliness and a focus on how well it operates to meet its purpose and objectives. The overall objective of surveillance of antimicrobial resistance is to facilitate control by informing the need to improve prescribing and infection control practices.

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