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Vancouver

Habibi AF, Banan R, Alizadeh Y, Leyli EK, Hajian A, Ramezani H, et al. Prophylactic antibiotics prescription in ear, nose, throat and ophthalmologic procedures; an Iranian university hospital situational analysis. ELECTRON J GEN MED. 2018;15(3):em42. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/85682

APA

Habibi, A. F., Banan, R., Alizadeh, Y., Leyli, E. K., Hajian, A., Ramezani, H., Behboodi, E., Nemati, S., & Ghanavi, Z. (2018). Prophylactic antibiotics prescription in ear, nose, throat and ophthalmologic procedures; an Iranian university hospital situational analysis. Electronic Journal of General Medicine, 15(3), em42. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/85682

AMA

Habibi AF, Banan R, Alizadeh Y, et al. Prophylactic antibiotics prescription in ear, nose, throat and ophthalmologic procedures; an Iranian university hospital situational analysis. ELECTRON J GEN MED. 2018;15(3), em42. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/85682

Chicago

Habibi, Ali Faghih, Rahmatollah Banan, Yousef Alizadeh, Ehsan Kazemnezhad Leyli, Abbas Hajian, Hedieh Ramezani, Edris Behboodi, Shadman Nemati, and Zahra Ghanavi. "Prophylactic antibiotics prescription in ear, nose, throat and ophthalmologic procedures; an Iranian university hospital situational analysis". Electronic Journal of General Medicine 2018 15 no. 3 (2018): em42. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/85682

Harvard

Habibi, A. F., Banan, R., Alizadeh, Y., Leyli, E. K., Hajian, A., Ramezani, H., . . . Ghanavi, Z. (2018). Prophylactic antibiotics prescription in ear, nose, throat and ophthalmologic procedures; an Iranian university hospital situational analysis. Electronic Journal of General Medicine, 15(3), em42. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/85682

MLA

Habibi, Ali Faghih et al. "Prophylactic antibiotics prescription in ear, nose, throat and ophthalmologic procedures; an Iranian university hospital situational analysis". Electronic Journal of General Medicine, vol. 15, no. 3, 2018, em42. https://doi.org/10.29333/ejgm/85682