Journal article
'Ten commandments' for the appropriate use of antibiotics by the practicing physician in an outpatient setting
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A multi-national working group on antibiotic stewardship, from the International Society of Chemotherapy, put together ten recommendations to physicians prescribing antibiotics to outpatients. These recommendations are: (1) use antibiotics only when needed; teach the patient how to manage symptoms of non-bacterial infections; (2) select the adequate ATB; precise targeting is better than shotgun therapy; (3) consider pharmacokinetics and phar-macodynamics when selecting an ATB; use the shortes...
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- Journal:
- Frontiers in Microbiology
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- NOV
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1664-302X
- Source identifiers:
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395236
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:395236
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- pubs:395236
- Deposit date:
- 2013-12-12
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- 2011
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