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Document Centre - Antimicrobial Use

Surveillance

Surveillance Guidelines

Community

• How to Investigate the Use of Medicines by Consumers (911K) (2004)

Health Clinics and Hospitals

• How to Investigate Drug Use in Health Facilities: Selected Drug Use Indicators (3.94M) (1993)

National

• WHO Operational Package for Assessing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Country Pharmaceutical Situations (1.18M) (2007)
• Using Indicators to Measure Country Pharmaceutical Situations: Fact Book on WHO Level I and Level II Monitoring Indicators (1M) (2006)
• Indicators for Monitoring National Drug Policies: A Practical Manual, Second edition. (1M) (1999)

Animal Husbandry

• First Meeting of the WHO Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance (AGISAR), 15-19 June 2009

Surveillance reports

• Medicines Use in Primary Care in Developing and Transitional Countries: Fact Book Summarizing Results from Studies Reported Between 1990 and 2006 (3.46M) (2009)
• Community-Based Surveillance of Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Resource-Constrained Settings: Report on Five Pilot Projects (1.40M) (2009)
• WHO's Database on Rational Use of Medicines (in Essential Drugs Monitor, Issue No. 33, 2003, p12) (1M) (2003)
• Comparative Analysis of National Drug Policies (405K) (1997)

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