Treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections: exploring differences in adherence to guidelines between three European countries. Drug Education Project Group.
Objective: To evaluate adherence of general practitioners to treatment guidelines regarding urinary tract infections in three European countries and to investigate whether differences in adherence at the prescribing level within and between countries could be explained by general practitioners' know...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Pharmacotherapy Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 19 - 27 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2000 Jan
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