Summary
THE Royal Liverpool Hospital is overhauling how it administers antibiotics to reduce cases of the deadly C difficile in the hospital.
From next week, new junior doctors in the emergency unit will be told to stop giving all patients a broad-based antibiotic, which can leave people more prone to C Diff but to tailor the drug more to suit each case.See the full content of this document
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Doctors will assess which antibiotic to give the patient and then whether an oral form of the drug would be suitable instead of intravenously administering i...
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