Antibiotics without prescription: 'Bacterial or medical resistance'?

Lancet

Volumn 355, Issue 9214, 2000, Pages 1480-

  Bauchner, Howard ^a   Wise, Paul H ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOTE; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0342700205     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02160-7     Document Type: Note

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