Preoperative urine cultures at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 71-72

  Drekonja, Dimitri M ^a,b   Zarmbinski, Breanna ^c   Johnson, James R ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DIARRHEA; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORAX SURGERY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; VETERANS HEALTH;

EID: 84873666683     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/2013.jamainternmed.834     Document Type: Letter

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