How Nova Scotia General Practitioners Choose Antibiotics for the Empirical Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Jacob Pendergrast; Thomas J Marrie

doi:10.1155/2000/751034

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases (Jan 2000)

How Nova Scotia General Practitioners Choose Antibiotics for the Empirical Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Jacob Pendergrast,
Thomas J Marrie

Affiliations

Jacob Pendergrast: Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Dalhousie University and Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Thomas J Marrie: Departments of Medicine and Microbiology, Dalhousie University and Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2000/751034
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 6
pp. 304 – 312

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: To gain an understanding of how physicians in general practice choose antibiotics for the empirical treatment of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP).

Published in Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases

ISSN: 1180-2332 (Print)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases
Website: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cjidmm/

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