Recommendation ID
DG38/1
Question

The committee recommended that further research is needed to measure the wider effects on public health and the costs of antimicrobial stewardship associated with different classes of antibiotics used in different healthcare settings. This will help to inform the development of technologies to guide more targeted use of antibiotics and wider UK antimicrobial resistance policy.

Any explanatory notes
(if applicable)

Source guidance details

Comes from guidance
Rapid tests for group A streptococcal infections in people with a sore throat
Number
DG38
Date issued
November 2019

Other details

Is this a recommendation for the use of a technology only in the context of research? No  
Is it a recommendation that suggests collection of data or the establishment of a register?   No  
Last Reviewed 30/11/2019