The Quality Use of Medicines smartphone-enabled website has been updated to include changes to hospital acquired pneumonia guidelines. With this site, you are only three clicks away from a treatment recommendation! See below for the range of guidelines available. Note that whilst Therapeutic Guidelines: Antibiotic remains the main resource, HNE guidelines, where approved, take precedence- they are generally more restrictive around use of broader spectrum agents, critical for reducing multi-resistant organism and C. difficile prevalence.
Other useful resources:
- Infectious Diseases management advice for HNELHD
- Severe sepsis guidelines, including blood culture collection advice (CEC)
- HNELHD cumulative antibiograms
- HNELHD Signal analyses – MRSA, MSSA, VRE, CPE, Streptococcus pneumoniae (HNE Intranet site) (contact J Ferguson for copies)
How do I find the smartphone app?
I have looked on the Apple Store.
Rebecca Woodward
Senior Pharmacist | Pharmacy Department
Cessnock District Hospital
View St, Cessnock, NSW, 2325
Tel 02 4991 0542 | Fax 02 4991 0406 | Rebecca.Woodward@hnehealth.nsw.gov.au
http://www.health.nsw.gov.au
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Hi Rebecca, just bookmark the URL for the page and it will link to the site. It is not an App as such! Just an html5 website that is adapted to a phone screen.
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