Implementing practice guidelines for appropriate antimicrobial usage: A systematic review

Medical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 8 SUPPL. 2, 2001, Pages

  Gross, Peter A ^a   Pujat, Duressa ^a,b  

^a HACKENSACK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Appropriate antibiotics; Implementing guidelines; Infectious diseases

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEWBORN; OTITIS MEDIA; PEER REVIEW; PHARYNGITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MULTICENTER STUDIES; OTITIS MEDIA; PEER REVIEW, HEALTH CARE; PHARYNGITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SINUSITIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 0035431506     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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