Model against unnecessary use of antibiotics
Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 08:00
in Health & Medicine
In his thesis Stefan Visscher studied 238 cases of antibiotic treatment of which - with hindsight - only 157 patients were actually suffering from pneumonia. An absence of suitable patient-friendly tests makes it difficult to determine with certainty whether or not a patient has developed pneumonia...
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