Impact of a multipronged education strategy on antibiotic prescribing in Quebec, Canada

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 433-439

  Weiss, Karl ^a   Blais, Régis ^a   Fortin, Anne ^b   Lantin, Sonia ^b   Gaudet, Michel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INESSS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG MARKETING; EDUCATION PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERNET; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; EDUCATION, PHARMACY, CONTINUING; HUMANS; INTERNET; OUTPATIENTS; PHARMACISTS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRESCRIPTIONS; QUEBEC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80051968210     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cir409     Document Type: Article

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