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Antimicrobial Stewardship Strategies: Preauthorization or Postprescription Audit and Feedback?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Trevor C. Van Schooneveld*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
Mark E. Rupp
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska
*
Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68198 (tvanscho@unmc.edu).

Abstract

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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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