Infectious diseases physicians' preferences for continuing medical education on antimicrobial resistance and other general topics

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 873-875

  Blakely, Jennifer Tuboku Metzger ^a   Sinkowitz Cochran, Ronda L ^a,b   Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CONTINUING EDUCATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PHYSICIAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL;

EID: 33748267666     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505922     Document Type: Article

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