Study of prescribing pattern of antimicrobial agents in medicine intensive care unit of a teaching hospital in central India

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 20-23

  Badar, Vandana A ^a   Navale, Sanjaykumar B ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INDIA; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 84859354939     PISSN: 00045772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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