Awareness of a hospital's antibiotic policy can be improved

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7257.384

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Andy Levy (a.levy@bristol.ac.uk), reader in medicine,
Debbie Campbell, medical directorate pharmacist, pharmacy department,
Robert Spencer, consultant microbiologist, Public Health Laboratory,
Robert Heyderman, senior lecturer

University Research Centre for Neuroendocrinology
Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol BS2 8HW
Department of Pathology and Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD

EDITOR—Nightingale et al examined prescribing in a specialist unit.1 The problem for most of us with medical staff prescribing for patients scattered throughout a hospital is ensuring that the rule base is available at the time and place of prescription.

Although the division of medicine's antibiotic policy in Bristol was sent to all medical staff, an audit of the use of antibiotics showed considerable …