Lot Quality Assurance Sampling as a tool for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance

Activity: Talk or presentationLecture / PresentationAcademic

Description

Empirical antibiotic treatment requires good insight in the prevalance of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Conventional prevalence surveys are time consuming, costly, and provide aggregated estimates. The presentation introduces the LQAS methodology to rapidly classify well-defined populations as having high- or low prevalence of AMR, facilitating appropriate antibiotic treatment strategies at a local level
Period17 Sept 2019
Event titleLecture at Amsterdam Public Health research institute
Event typeLecture
LocationAmsterdm, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of RecognitionLocal

Keywords

  • research methods
  • LQAS
  • Surveillance