Dental implications: Initiatives to improve antibiotic use
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Initiatives to improve appropriate antibiotic prescribing in primary care.
Influencing clinicians' prescribing behaviour is important because inappropriate use and overuse of antibiotics are major drivers of antibiotic resistance. A systematic review of interventions for promoting prudent prescribing of antibiotics by general practitioners suggests that multifaceted interventions will maximize acceptability. This article reports how this type of approach has been used...
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عنوان ژورنال: Australian Prescriber
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0312-8008,1839-3942
DOI: 10.18773/austprescr.1999.033