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Improving Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing for Respiratory Tract Infections: Results of New Algorithms Used in European Trials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2015

Robert Gaynes  and
Stuart Levy
Robert Gaynes*
Affiliation:
Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Stuart Levy
Affiliation:
Tufts University School of Medicine, and Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Address correspondence to Robert Gaynes, MD, Emory University School of Medicine, 1670 Clairmont Rd, Decatur, GA 30033 (rgaynes@emory.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 6 , June 2015 , pp. 725 - 729
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© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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