Faetkenheuer, G. and Jung, N. and Kern, W. V. and Foelsch, U. R. and Salzberger, B. (2018) Infectious diseases - a specialty of internal medicine. INTERNIST, 59 (4). pp. 334-340. ISSN 0020-9554, 1432-1289
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Infectious diseases have recently gained wide public interest. Emerging infections and rising rates of antibiotic resistance are determining this trend. Both challenges will need to be addressed in international and local collaborations between different specialties in medicine and basic science. Infectious diseases as a clinical specialty in this scenario is directly responsible for the care of patients with infectious diseases. Its involvement in the care of patients with complicated infections has proved to be highly effective. Antibiotic stewardship programmes are effective measures in slowing the development of antibiotic resistance and have been widely implemented. But antibiotic stewardship specialists should not be confused with or taken as an alternative to infectious disease experts. Infectious diseases requires appropriate and specific training. It mainly uses the instrumentarium of internal medicine. With the current challenges in modern medicine, infectious diseases in Germany should thus be upgraded from a subspecialty to a clinical specialty, ideally within Internal Medicine.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MANAGEMENT; SPECTRUM; Infectious diseases, emerging; Drug resistance, microbial; Antibiotic stewardship; Education, medical, postgraduate; Specialty, internal medicine |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Innere Medizin I |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2020 10:15 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2020 10:15 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/14848 |
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