The term is currently used to designate either a place or a philosophy of care for persons in the last stages of life and their families. For decades there have been hospices in England, free-standing facilities unaffiliated with hospitals and autonomous in terms of professional procedures.
Antimicrobial resistance refers to the resistance of a microbial organism to a drug or an agent that was previously effective in eliminating the organism or checking its growth and multiplication. Drug resistant strains generally evolve over a period of time in nature.
Antimicrobial versus Antibiotic Resistance. The word antimicrobial has been derived from the Greek words anti (against), mikros (little) and bios (life) and refers to all agents that are able to kill (microbicidal) or retard the growth of (biostatic) such microorganisms as bacteria, fungi and protozoans.