BSAC Guidelines app for iPhone and iPad

BSAC Working Party Guidelines

This application provides a fast and convenient means to access, download, and view a selection of resources published by the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. These resources include evidence based, peer reviewed guidelines, good practice recommendations, reports and published papers. This application links to the latest published version of each resource and opens them using your preferred PDF Viewer.

Resources included in this current release are:

1. Good Practice Recommendations for Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) in adults in the UK: a consensus statement (2009)
2. Prophylaxis and treatment of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in the UK (2008)
3. BSAC Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing (2012)
4. Interventions to improve antibiotic practices for hospital inpatients (2009)
5. Guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia in the UK: Report of the Working Party on Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2008)
6. Guidelines for UK practice for the diagnosis and management of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infections presenting in the community (2008)
7. Guidelines for the prevention of endocarditis: report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2006)
8. Guidelines for the laboratory diagnosis and susceptibility testing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) (2005)
9. An assessment of the risks associated with the use of antibiotic resistance genes in genetically modified plants: report of the Working Party of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (2004)
10. Effective antibacterials: at what cost? The economics of antibacterial resistance and its control (2011)
11. Regulatory opportunities to encourage technology solutions to antibacterial drug resistance (2011)
12. Discover research: the scientific challenge of finding new antibiotics (2011)
13. The urgent need for new antibiotics (2011)
14. The crisis of no new antibiotics (2011)

The application features keyword search, bookmarking and access to BSAC websites.