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Antibiotic Prescribing by Dentists and Geographic Variability in the Veterans Affairs (VA) Health System
BACKGROUND: In the US, dentists prescribe 10% of outpatient antibiotics and are the top specialty prescriber. However, it is difficult to distinguish antibiotic prophylaxis vs. treatment because dentists generally code using procedure codes (CDT), rarely using diagnostic codes (ICD). In VA, dentists...
Autores principales: | Acosta, Kaitlyn, Patel, Ursula C, Evans, Charlesnika, Wesolowski, Michael, Gibson, Gretchen, Jurasic, Marianne, Fitzpatrick, Margaret, Miskevics, Scott, Ramanathan, Swetha, Suda, Katie J |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5632214/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.544 |
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