Comment on: Measurement units for antibiotic consumption in outpatients

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3445-3446

  Coenen, Samuel ^a   Bruyndonckx, Robin ^b   Hens, Niel ^a,b   Aerts, Marc ^b   Goossens, Herman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Antibiotic consumption; Dose change; Measurement unit

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; MIKAMYCIN B; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; AWARENESS; BELGIUM; DRUG USE; EUROPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MEASUREMENT; OUTPATIENT; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; SLOVENIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TREND STUDY; AMBULATORY CARE; DRUG UTILIZATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDS;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84929942082     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dku292     Document Type: Letter

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