Surgeons and Infectious Disease Specialists: Different Attitudes Towards Antibiotic Treatment and Prophylaxis in Common Abdominal Surgical Infections

Surgical Infections

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-123

  Gorecki, Piotr J ^a   Schein, Moshe ^a   Mehta, Vishal ^a   Wise, Leslie ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMEN; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ABDOMEN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0034212095     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/109629600321155     Document Type: Article

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