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Editorial| Volume 24, ISSUE 2, P57, May 2019

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Editorial

  • Brett Mitchell
    Affiliations
    Discipline of Nursing, Avondale College of Higher Education, Wahroonga, NSW, 2076, Australia
    School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Newcastle, NSW, 2308, Australia
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      We are pleased to announce that, from 2019, Infection, Disease & Health is included in Elsevier's freedom and subject collections. These packages are available to thousands of institutions around the world, allowing many more researchers worldwide to read and cite the journal than in previous years. If you have not already seen the virtual special issues collated online on the Infection, Disease & Health is website, I would encourage you to do so. The collections include antimicrobial resistance, urinary tract infections, vector-borne disease and The Centre of Research Excellence in Reducing Healthcare Associated Infections. The antimicrobial resistance issues contains articles covering a broad range of topics, including antibiotic prescribing in Emergency departments [
      • Clemence M.C.
      • Henderson A.
      • Greenbury C.B.
      • Norton R.E.
      • Furyk J.
      A survey of the antibiotic prescribing practices of doctors in an Australian Emergency Department.
      ] and General Practice [
      • Lum E.P.
      • Page K.
      • Whitty J.A.
      • Doust J.
      • Graves N.
      Antibiotic prescribing in primary healthcare: dominant factors and trade-offs in decision-making.
      ], antibiotics stewardship [
      • Mostaghim M.
      • Snelling T.
      • McMullan B.
      • Konecny P.
      • Bond S.
      • Adhikari S.
      • et al.
      Nurses are underutilised in antimicrobial stewardship–Results of a multisite survey in paediatric and adult hospitals.
      ] and resistance data [
      • Heazlewood T.G.
      • Ogden K.
      • McCann D.
      Multidrug resistant gram-negative bacteria in Tasmania: an audit based pilot study.
      ,
      • Wozniak T.M.
      • Paterson D.
      • Halton K.
      Review of the epidemiological data regarding antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria in Australia.
      ]. There are further articles related to the topic of antimicrobial resistance in this issue [
      • Dyer J.
      • Vaux L.
      • Broom A.
      • Broom J.
      Antimicrobial use in patients at the end of life in an Australian hospital.
      ,
      • Phamnguyen T.J.
      • Murphy G.
      • Hashem F.
      Single centre observational study on antibiotic prescribing adherence to clinical practice guidelines for treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infection.
      ].
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      References

        • Clemence M.C.
        • Henderson A.
        • Greenbury C.B.
        • Norton R.E.
        • Furyk J.
        A survey of the antibiotic prescribing practices of doctors in an Australian Emergency Department.
        Infect Dis Health. 2018; 23: 67-73
        • Lum E.P.
        • Page K.
        • Whitty J.A.
        • Doust J.
        • Graves N.
        Antibiotic prescribing in primary healthcare: dominant factors and trade-offs in decision-making.
        Infect Dis Health. 2018; 23: 74-86
        • Mostaghim M.
        • Snelling T.
        • McMullan B.
        • Konecny P.
        • Bond S.
        • Adhikari S.
        • et al.
        Nurses are underutilised in antimicrobial stewardship–Results of a multisite survey in paediatric and adult hospitals.
        Infect Dis Health. 2017; 22: 57-64
        • Heazlewood T.G.
        • Ogden K.
        • McCann D.
        Multidrug resistant gram-negative bacteria in Tasmania: an audit based pilot study.
        Infect Dis Health. 2016; 21: 41-50
        • Wozniak T.M.
        • Paterson D.
        • Halton K.
        Review of the epidemiological data regarding antimicrobial resistance in Gram-negative bacteria in Australia.
        Infect Dis Health. 2017; 22: 210-218
        • Dyer J.
        • Vaux L.
        • Broom A.
        • Broom J.
        Antimicrobial use in patients at the end of life in an Australian hospital.
        Infect Dis Health. 2019; 24: 92-97
        • Phamnguyen T.J.
        • Murphy G.
        • Hashem F.
        Single centre observational study on antibiotic prescribing adherence to clinical practice guidelines for treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infection.
        Infect Dis Health. 2019; 24: 75-81