Can a smartphone app improve medical trainees’ knowledge of antibiotics?
Open Access
- 30 November 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by International Journal of Medical Education in International Journal of Medical Education
- Vol. 8, 416-420
Abstract
To determine whether a smartphone app, containing local bacterial resistance patterns (antibiogram) and treatment guidelines, improved knowledge of prescribing antimicrobials among medical trainees.Keywords
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