State Task Force Urges Better Use of Antibiotics

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TRENTON A task force examining the expensive, sometimes deadly problem of bacteria increasingly becoming resistant to antibiotics says New Jersey hospitals must increase surveillance of these microbes and improve infection control practices.

A strategic plan from the task force, released Monday, also recommends better educating the public about the danger and standardizing testing to determine which antibiotics best kill specific microbes prevalent in a hospital or region, information that can guide doctors' choice of medication.

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State Task Force Urges Better Use of Antibiotics

The 30-member task force of health experts, established in February 2005 by the state Department of Health & Senior Services, sets those four steps as goal...

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