Enhancing the safety of hospitalized patients: who is minding the antimicrobials?

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Scott A Flanders et al. Arch Intern Med. 2012.

. 2012 Jan 9;172(1):38-40.

doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.595.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. flanders@umich.edu

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