Appropriate use of antibiotics for URIs in children: Part II. Cough, pharyngitis and the common cold

American Family Physician

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1335-1342

  Dowell, Scott F ^a   Schwartz, Benjamin ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHLORTETRACYCLINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN G; PENICILLIN V; PLACEBO; SULFAFURAZOLE; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; PHARYNGITIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; COUGH; HUMANS; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHARYNGITIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TEACHING MATERIALS;

EID: 0031771118     PISSN: 0002838X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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