Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 310-316 , December 2009

Effectiveness of Workflow Change for Improving the Timing of Prophylactic Antibiotics

  • Sung-Ching Pan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Hsiang-Chi Kung

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Jou-Wei Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yun-Lin Branch, Yun-Lin, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Szu-Min Hsieh

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Shan-Chwen Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7, Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 31 July 2009 ,Revised 10 August 2009 ,Accepted 1 September 2009.

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PII: S1016-3190(09)60061-6

doi: 10.1016/S1016-3190(09)60061-6

Tzu Chi Medical Journal
Volume 21, Issue 4 , Pages 310-316 , December 2009

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