Improving outpatient antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections: results of new algorithms used in European trials.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

2Tufts University School of Medicine,and Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics,Boston,Massachusetts.

Published: June 2015

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