Antimicrobial dosing recommendations during continuous renal replacement therapy: different databases, different

Aysel Pehlivanli1,2, Tuğba Yanik Yalçin3, Fatma İrem Yeşiler4

  • 1Pharmacology Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, Başkent University.

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