Education as a means of reducing medical expenses

Medical Education

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-153

  Tajima, Y ^a   Nagasawa, Z ^a   Tanabe, I ^a   Kusaba, K ^a   Tadano, J ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Computer assisted drug therapy; Drug costs; Education in medicine; Japan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY; DRUG COST; HEALTH CARE COST; INFECTION; JAPAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; SCIENCE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG COSTS; DRUG THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HUMANS; JAPAN;

EID: 0032988443     PISSN: 03080110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2923.1999.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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