Prescribing Pattern of Vancomycin in a Community Teaching Hospital with Low Prevalence of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 767-769

  Watanakunakorn, Chatrchai ^a  

^a ST ELIZABETH HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; GUIDELINES; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; OHIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0031265828     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141321     Document Type: Article

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