"Real world" compliance with strategies to prevent early-onset group B streptococcal disease

Journal of Perinatology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 272-277

  Riley, Laura ^a   Appollon, Kataia ^b   Haider, Sadia ^b   Chan Flynn, Stella ^a   Cohen, Amy ^b   Ecker, Jeffrey ^a   Rein, Mitchell ^c   Lieberman, Ellice ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PRENATAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037628981     PISSN: 07438346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jp.7210895     Document Type: Review

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