Antimicrobial stewardship: another focus for patient safety?

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Published in Curr Opin Infect Dis on August 01, 2014

Authors

Pranita D Tamma1, Alison Holmes, Elizabeth Dodds Ashley

Author Affiliations

1: aDivision of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA bFaculty of Medicine, National Centre for Infection Prevention and Management, Imperial College, London, UK cAssociate Director of Clinical Pharmacy Services, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA.

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