Audits for monitoring the quality of antimicrobial prescriptions

Antibiotic Policies: Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 197-226

  Gyssens, Inge C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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