Knowledge, attitude and practice of antibiotics: A questionnaire study among 2500 Chinese students

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Huang, Ying ^a,b   Gu, Jiarui ^a   Zhang, Mingyu ^a   Ren, Zheng ^a   Yang, Weidong ^a   Chen, Yang ^a   Fu, Yingmei ^a,b   Chen, Xiaobei ^a   Cals, Jochen Wl ^c   Zhang, Fengmin ^a,b  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Heilongjiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Infection and Immunity   (China)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anbiotics usage; KAP; Medical students; Questionnaire survey; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CURRICULUM; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STUDENT; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHINA; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION, MEDICAL; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; STUDENTS; STUDENTS, MEDICAL;

EID: 84889789813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-163     Document Type: Article

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