The Role of Antimicrobial Management Programs in Optimizing Antibiotic Prescribing within Hospitals
Open Access
- 15 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 42 (Supplement) , S90-S95
- https://doi.org/10.1086/499407
Abstract
Managing serious infections is a balance between providing timely and appropriate broad-spectrum empirical therapy for individual patients, which hasKeywords
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