Controversies in Management: Should General Practitioners Perform Diagnostic Tests on Patients Before Prescribing Antibiotics?

Overview

Journal BMJ

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1999 Mar 20

PMID 10082712

Citations 10

Authors

H J Kolmos

P Little

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