Comment on: Can mass media campaigns change antimicrobial prescribing? A regional evaluation study [5]

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 179-180

  Coenen, Samuel ^a,b   Costers, Michiel ^c   Goossens, Herman ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^c Belgian Antibiotic Policy Coordinating Committee   (Belgium)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Antibiotic use; Europe; Prescribing behaviour; Public campaigns

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AMBULATORY CARE; BELGIUM; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG USE; FRANCE; HUMAN; LETTER; MASS MEDIUM; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRESCRIPTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BELGIUM; CHILD; DRUG UTILIZATION; FRANCE; HUMANS; MASS MEDIA; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG;

EID: 34447561721     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkm134     Document Type: Letter

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