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Nudging empiric prescribing: Embedding antimicrobial stewardship program order sets into a general medicine admission order set

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2020

April J. Chan Open the ORCID record for April J. Chan [Opens in a new window] ,
Ajay Kapur ,
Bradley J. Langford  and
Mark Downing
April J. Chan*
Affiliation:
St Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto, ON, Canada
Ajay Kapur
Affiliation:
St Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto, ON, Canada
Bradley J. Langford
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, ON, Canada
Mark Downing
Affiliation:
St Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto, ON, Canada University of Toronto, ON, Canada
*
Author for correspondence: April J Chan, E-mail: apriljane.chan@gmail.com.
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 41 , Issue 11 , November 2020 , pp. 1349 - 1351
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PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. This study was presented as a poster at IDWeek 2019 on October 5, 2019, in Washington, DC.

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