Table 1.

National AMR Programs in the Community in Canada 1995-2010

	CCAR	DBND	NIPA	NCCID
Years	1998-2009	From 1998	2001-2006	From 2008
Scope	National	Provincial	National	National
Duration	12 yrs	Ongoing	5 yrs	Ongoing
Funding	Federal Gov't	Provincial	Pfizer	Federal Gov't
Public Communications
Pamphlets/brochures	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Press conferences	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Posters	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Television/Radio	No	Yes	Yes	No
Video (eg, clinic room)	No	Yes	No	No
Website	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Day-care programme	No	Yes	No	No
School programme	No	Yes	No	No
Professional Communications
Doctors/Pharmacists/Nurses	Yes*	Yes	Yes	Yes
Scientific journal articles	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Treatment guidelines	Endorsed DBND	Yes	No	No
Letters to doctors	Yes	Yes	No	No
Toolkits Distributed	Yes†	No	No	No
Educational outreach	Yes	Yes	No	No
Feedback	No	Yes	No	Yes
Undergraduate curriculum	Yes	Yes	No	No
Antibiotic prescription pads	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Symptomatic therapy scripts Evaluation	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Controls for evaluation	No	Yes	No	No
Patient/physician knowledge	No	Yes	Yes	No
Antibiotic use	Yes‡	Yes	No	No
Resistance rates	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Clinical outcomes	No	No	No	No

CCAR: Canadian Committee on Antibiotic Resistance; DBND: Do Bugs Need Drugs?; NIPA: National Information Program on Antibiotics; NCCID: National Collaborating Centre for Infectious Diseases

*Included information for veterinarians

^† all 56,000 physicians in Canada

^‡ obtained agreement with IMS HEALTH Canada to provide up-to-date national and regional antibiotic consumption data through its Compuscript database