Adherence to recommendations by infectious disease consultants and its influence on outcomes of intravenous antibiotic-treated hospitalized patients.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on November 09, 2012

Authors

María-Carmen Fariñas1, Gabriela Saravia, Jorge Calvo-Montes, Natividad Benito, Juan-José Martínez-Garde, Concepción Fariñas-Alvarez, Lorenzo Aguilar, Ramón Agüero, José-Antonio Amado, Luis Martínez-Martínez, Manuel Gómez-Fleitas

Author Affiliations

1: Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, School of Medicine, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain. farinasc@unican.es

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