Overprescribing of antibiotics by UK ophthalmologists

T Fayers¹, G K Loh¹, M F Cordeiro^{1

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3}, V Lee¹, R Jain¹, P M Fayers⁴

Affiliations

¹ Imperial College Ophthalmic Research Unit, Western Eye Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
² Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK.
³ Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

T Fayers et al. Eye (Lond). 2018 Feb.

. 2018 Feb;32(2):240-242.

doi: 10.1038/eye.2017.191. Epub 2017 Sep 8.

T Fayers¹, G K Loh¹, M F Cordeiro^{1

2

3}, V Lee¹, R Jain¹, P M Fayers⁴

¹ Imperial College Ophthalmic Research Unit, Western Eye Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.
² Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, London, UK.
³ Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁴ Institute of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

Comment on 'Overprescribing of antibiotics by UK ophthalmologists'.
Morsman CD. Morsman CD. Eye (Lond). 2018 Oct;32(10):1677-1678. doi: 10.1038/s41433-018-0129-9. Epub 2018 May 23. Eye (Lond). 2018. PMID: 29789658 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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