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Inappropriate Use of Intravenous PPI for Stress Ulcer Prophylaxis in an Inner City Community Hospital

BACKGROUND: Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are used for the treatment and prophylaxis of variety of acid peptic conditions including stress ulcers. There has been a persistent practice of their inappropriate use for stress ulcer prophylaxis. Purpose of our study was to measure the inappropriate use o...

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Autores principales: Perwaiz, Muhammad K., Posner, Gerald, Hammoudeh, Fadi, Schmidt, Frances, Neupane, Narayan, Enriquez, Danilo, Gulati, Neerja
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3104667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21629543
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr447w