Auditing and benchmarking of azithromycin utilization in primary care military clinics

Military Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1065-1070

  Gilad, Jacob ^c   Kopylov, Uri ^a   Admon, Gil ^a   Borer, Abraham ^b   Schlaeffer, Francise ^b   Aviram, Liad E ^a  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AZITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN V;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COST CONTROL; DRUG COST; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MONEY; NONSPECIFIC URETHRITIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; STAFF TRAINING; TONSILLITIS; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 35348845247     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/milmed.172.10.1065     Document Type: Article

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