Decreasing out-of-pocket costs of antibiotics: The good, the bad, and the unknown

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 1314-1316

  Hersh, Adam L ^a   Gonzales, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MACROLIDE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; DRUG COST; EMERGENCY CARE; HUMAN; MEDICARE; MEDICATION ERROR; NOTE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PNEUMONIA; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG COSTS; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MACROLIDES; MEDICARE PART D; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PNEUMONIA; QUINOLONES; RESEARCH DESIGN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955440125     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.225     Document Type: Note

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