Optimizing antibiotics in residents of nursing homes: protocol of a randomized trial.

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Published in BMC Health Serv Res on September 03, 2002

Authors

Mark Loeb1, Kevin Brazil, Lynne Lohfeld, Allison McGeer, Andrew Simor, Kurt Stevenson, Stephen Walter, Dick Zoutman

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University Hamilton, ON, Canada. loebm@mcmaster.ca

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