A randomised controlled trial of clinical outreach education to rationalise antibiotic prescribing for acute dental pain in the primary care setting

British Dental Journal

Volumn 201, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 217-222

  Seager, J M ^a   Howell Jones, R S ^a   Dunstan, F D ^a   Lewis, M A O ^a   Richmond, S ^a   Thomas, D W ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTAL EDUCATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TOOTH PAIN; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DENTIST'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; EDUCATION, DENTAL, CONTINUING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TOOTHACHE; WALES;

EID: 33747878067     PISSN: 00070610     EISSN: 17417503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bdj.4813879     Document Type: Article

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