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Nudging empiric prescribing: Embedding antimicrobial stewardship program order sets into a general medicine admission order set

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2020

April J. Chan*
Affiliation:
St Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto, ON, Canada
Ajay Kapur
Affiliation:
St Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto, ON, Canada
Bradley J. Langford
Affiliation:
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion, ON, Canada
Mark Downing
Affiliation:
St Joseph’s Health Centre, Unity Health Toronto, ON, Canada University of Toronto, ON, Canada
*
Author for correspondence: April J Chan, E-mail: [email protected].

Abstract

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Research Brief
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© 2020 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. This study was presented as a poster at IDWeek 2019 on October 5, 2019, in Washington, DC.

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