Attitudes of housestaff toward a prior-authorization-based antibiotic stewardship program.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Drexel University College of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Published: April 2012

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