|Videos|July 30, 2016

Pharmacist-Clinician Collaboration to Reduce Antibiotic Prescribing

Joan Bennett, DNP, FNP-BC, a clinician with RediClinic, discusses how care providers should collaborate to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing.

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