Prescription and use of antibiotics at a pediatric intensive care unit in Buenos Aires City;Prescripción y uso de antibióticos en una unidad de cuidados intensivos pediátricos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires

Archivos Argentinos de Pediatria

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 409-415

  Bidone, Nancy ^a   Giglio, Norberto ^a   Bakir, Julia ^a   Sheehan, María G ^a   Arias López, María P ^a   Rosin, Melina ^a   Farías, Julio ^a   Procopio, Adriana ^a   Gentile, Ángela ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Drug utilization study; Use of antibiotics

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PEDIATRICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARGENTINA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 56749118080     PISSN: 03250075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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