Experience with Vancomycin education and order sheet to limit Vancomycin use

Hospital Pharmacy

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1370-1373

  Adachi, Wayne ^a   Bolding, Fern ^a   Armstrong, Robert ^a  

^a Infect Dis Columbia Good S   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug resistance; Vancomycin; Vancomycin resistant enterococcus (VRE)

Indexed keywords

VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; HEALTH EDUCATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

EID: 1842404738     PISSN: 00185787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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