Diagnostic Errors that Lead to Inappropriate Antimicrobial Use

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 949-956

  Filice, Gregory A ^a,b   Drekonja, Dimitri M ^a,b   Thurn, Joseph R ^a,b   Hamann, Galen M ^a   Masoud, Bobbie T ^a   Johnson, James R ^a,b  

^a Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CLINICAL AUDIT; CYSTITIS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PYELONEPHRITIS; RANDOMIZATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CYSTITIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PYELONEPHRITIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 84994060640     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.113     Document Type: Article

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