Prescribing and guidelines: Both must improve to combat antimicrobial resistance

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-11

  Woodhead, M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG INDICATION; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEVER; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COUGH; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 79960177966     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00020111     Document Type: Editorial

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