American Medical Association House of Delegates
Annual Meeting 2001
The following items were adopted from Reference Committee E
- Resolution 508 - Antimicrobial Use and Resistance
- That our American Medical Association work with other organizations to establish a national program to counter antibiotic resistance in clinical practice similar to the California Medical Association Foundation AWARE program.
- That our AMA is opposed to the use of antimicrobials at non-therapeutic levels in agriculture, or as pesticides or growth promoters, and urges that non-therapeutic use in animals of antimicrobials (that are also used in humans) should be terminated or phased out based on scientifically sound risk assessments.
- That our AMA urge that increased surveillance of antimicrobial use and resistance be funded and instituted as recommended by the Institute of Medicine and American Society of Microbiology.
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