Antibiotic prescription in the emergency department of a tertiary level hospital;Características de la prescripción de antibióticos en un servicio de urgencias de un hospital de tercer nivel

Emergencias

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 367-370

  Nicolás, David ^a   Monclús, Ester ^a   de Andrés, Ana ^a   Sánchez, Miquel ^a   Ortega, Mar ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Hospital emergency health services; Patient safety; Prescriptions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924655303     PISSN: 11376821     EISSN: 23865857     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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