Hospital and Societal Costs of Antimicrobial‐Resistant Infections in a Chicago Teaching Hospital: Implications for Antibiotic Stewardship
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- 15 October 2009
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- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 49 (8) , 1175-1184
- https://doi.org/10.1086/605630
Abstract
Background. Organisms resistant to antimicrobials continue to emerge and spread. This study was performed to measure the medical and societal cost atKeywords
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