Faculty and resident physicians' attitudes, perceptions, and knowledge about antimicrobial use and resistance

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 714-718

  Abbo, Lilian ^a,b   Sinkowitz Cochran, Ronda ^c   Smith, Laura ^b   Ariza Heredia, Ella ^a   Gómez Marín, Orlando ^a   Srinivasan, Arjun ^c   Hooton, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRESCRIPTION; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; RESIDENT; UNIVERSITY;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DRUG RESISTANCE; FACULTY, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIANS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 79958701521     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660761     Document Type: Article

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