Drug-specific quality indicators assessing outpatient antibiotic use among French general practitioners
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European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption (ESAC): disease-specific quality indicators for outpatient antibiotic prescribing.
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عنوان ژورنال: The European Journal of Public Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1101-1262,1464-360X
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/cks100