PAHO/WHO Rapid assessment tool for monitoring laboratory capacity for antimicrobial resistance surveillance - Epi info™ user’s guide; 2018

Introduction

Strengthening laboratory capacity to accurately identify pathogens and their antimicrobial susceptibility is important to build strong antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance systems for containing and controlling antimicrobial resistance. This rapid assessment tool help monitor and evaluate bacteriology laboratory capacity in the Americas. It can be printed and used as a paper-based tool or used electronically by an Epi-InfoTM-based software program developed to facilitate data entry, storage and analysis. This user’s guide includes instructions on installing Epi infoTM software and the assessment tool, stepby-step data entry tutorial, data extraction tutorial and a data dictionary to refer to when performing data analysis.