Don't just do it-Conducting and publishing improvement science in infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship

W Matthew Linam¹, Kavita K Trivedi², Joshua K Schaffzin^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Division of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Alameda County Public Health Department, San Leandro, California.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Review

W Matthew Linam et al. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2022.

. 2022 Mar 2;2(1):e33.

doi: 10.1017/ash.2021.259. eCollection 2022.

W Matthew Linam¹, Kavita K Trivedi², Joshua K Schaffzin^{3

4}

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Division of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Alameda County Public Health Department, San Leandro, California.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.

No abstract available

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