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Attitudes of Housestaff toward a Prior-Authorization-Based Antibiotic Stewardship Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Ian A. Seemungal  and
Christopher J. Bruno
Ian A. Seemungal
Affiliation:
Drexel University College of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Christopher J. Bruno*
Affiliation:
Drexel University College of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
245 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (cbruno01@drexelmed.edu)
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 33 , Issue 4: Special Topic Issue: Antimicrobial Stewardship , April 2012 , pp. 429 - 431
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2012

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