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Toward Better Antibiotic Use in Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stephen B. Kritchevsky  and
Bryan P. Simmons
Stephen B. Kritchevsky*
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee
Bryan P. Simmons
Affiliation:
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
*
Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Universityof Tennessee, 877 Madison Ave., Memphis,TN 38163
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 15 , Issue 11 , November 1994 , pp. 688 - 690
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1994 

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