Understanding Therapeutic Drug Monitoring: Peaks, Troughs, and MIC Reports

American Journal of Nursing

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 42-44

  Shirrell, Donna J ^a   Gibbar Clements, Tina ^b   Dooley, Randy ^c   Free, Clifford ^a  

^a SE Missouri Hosp College of Nursing ^*

^b Southeast Missouri Hospital   (United States)

^c Department of Pharmacy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENTAMICIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; DRUG MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NURSING; PATIENT CARE; SURGICAL INFECTION;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG MONITORING; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0347600693     PISSN: 0002936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3472031     Document Type: Article

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