Excessive Antibiotic Use for Acute Respiratory Infections in the United States
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- 15 September 2001
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 33 (6), 757-762
- https://doi.org/10.1086/322627
Abstract
Estimating the amount and cost of excess antibiotic use in ambulatory practice and identifying the conditions that account for most excess use are neKeywords
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