Attitudes and behaviours to antimicrobial prescribing following introduction of a smartphone App

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Panesar, Preet ^a   Jones, Alisdair ^a   Aldous, Alicia ^a   Kranzer, Katharina ^a,b   Halpin, Eamus ^c   Fifer, Helen ^a   Macrae, Bruce ^a   Curtis, Carmel ^a   Pollara, Gabriele ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Horizon Strategic Partners   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; MOBILE APPLICATION; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; SMARTPHONE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; PHYSICIAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; SMARTPHONE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84964794763     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0154202     Document Type: Article

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