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Physicians’ knowledge, perceptions, and attitudes toward antimicrobial prescribing in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abeer M. Baadani, Kamran Baig, Wafa A. Alfahad, Sultan Aldalbahi and Ali S. Omrani
Saudi Medical Journal May 2015, 36 (5) 613-619; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.5.11726
Abeer M. Baadani
From the Division of Infectious Diseases (Baadani), the Department of Infection Control (Baig), the Department of Pharmacy (Alfahad), the Department of Medicine (Aldalbahi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, and the Department of Infectious Diseases (Omrani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Kamran Baig
From the Division of Infectious Diseases (Baadani), the Department of Infection Control (Baig), the Department of Pharmacy (Alfahad), the Department of Medicine (Aldalbahi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, and the Department of Infectious Diseases (Omrani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Wafa A. Alfahad
From the Division of Infectious Diseases (Baadani), the Department of Infection Control (Baig), the Department of Pharmacy (Alfahad), the Department of Medicine (Aldalbahi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, and the Department of Infectious Diseases (Omrani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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vol. 36 no. 5 613-619
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.5.11726
PubMed 
25935184

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received December 16, 2014
  • Accepted March 16, 2015
  • Published online May 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Abeer M. Baadani, MBBS, ABIM⇑,
  2. Kamran Baig, MBBS, ABIM,
  3. Wafa A. Alfahad, BSPharm, SSC-PhP,
  4. Sultan Aldalbahi, MD and
  5. Ali S. Omrani, FRCP, FRCPath
  1. From the Division of Infectious Diseases (Baadani), the Department of Infection Control (Baig), the Department of Pharmacy (Alfahad), the Department of Medicine (Aldalbahi), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, and the Department of Infectious Diseases (Omrani), King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Abeer M. Baadani, Division of Infectious Diseases, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: albaadani{at}gmail.com
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