Appropriateness of antibiotic prescriptions in community-acquired acute pediatric respiratory infections in Spanish emergency rooms

Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 751-758

  Sangrador Ochoa, Carlos ^a   Inglada, Luis ^b   Eiros, José MaríA ^c   Solís, Gonzalo ^d   Vallano, Antonio ^e   Guerra, Luis ^f  

^a HOSPITAL VIRGEN DE LA CONCHA   (Spain)

^b Hospital de Medina del Campo   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL DE CABUEÑES   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^f MINISTERIO DE SANIDAD Y CONSUMO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory infection; Antibiotics; Appropriateness; Clinical practice; Drug utilization study; Variability

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFUROXIME AXETIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OTITIS MEDIA; PNEUMONIA; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SINUSITIS; SPAIN; TONSILLITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEER REVIEW; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SPAIN;

EID: 0034888102     PISSN: 08913668     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Common infections in ambulatory patients
2. The nature of a small pediatric group practice
3. Comentario epidemiológico de las enfermedades de declaración obligatoria (EDO) y sistema de información microbiológica (SIM): España. Año 1994
4. Estudio de las infecciones respiratorias extrahospitalarias
5. Trends in antimicrobial drug prescribing among office-based physicians in the United States
6. Antibiotics and upper respiratory infection: Do some folks think there is a cure for the common cold?
7. Reducing inappropriate oral antibiotic use: A prescription for change
8. Análisis de la prescripción de antibióticos en las infecciones respiratorias agudas de un centro de salud
9. Antibiotic use in upper respiratory tract infections in New Zealand
10. El uso racional de los medicamentos en la terapéutica de las infecciones respiratorias agudas de vías altas
11. Calidad del tratamiento antibiótico en la atención primaria de la comarca de osona (Barcelona)
12. Profiles of antibacterial drug use in Australia and trends from 1987 to 1989: A report from the Drug Utilization Subcommittee of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee
13. Tendencias registradas en el empleo de antimicrobianos en un hospital español entre 1986 y 1991
14. Resistance to antimicrobial drugs: A worldwide calamity
15. Consumo de antibióticos y resistencia bacteriana a los antibióticos: "algo que te concierne"
16. The Second European Collaborative Study of the frequency of antimicrobial resistance in Haemophitus influenzae
17. A review of antibiotic resistance patterns of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Europe
18. Trends in antimicrobial resistance of clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Bellvitge Hospital, Barcelona, Spain (1979-1990)
19. Antibiotic resistance in Spain: What can be done?
20. Influence of recent antibiotic therapy on antimicrobial resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae in children with acute otitis media in Spain
21. Situación epidemiológica actual y resistencia de los patógenos respiratorios en España
22. La Medicina basada en la evidencia: Un intento de acercar la ciencia al arte de la práctica clínica
23. Some statistical methods for combining experimental results
24. Utilización de antiinfecciosos en España durante el periodo 1981-1987
25. Estimating worldwide current antibiotic usage: Report of Task Force 1
26. Demanda inadecuada a un servicio de urgencias pediátrico hospitalario: Factores implicados
27. Consultas reiterativas en la urgencia hospitalaria pediátrica
28. Frecuentación a los servicios de urgencias hospitalarios: Relación con la utilizacidn de la atención primaria en una población pediátrica
29. Antibiotic prescribing for children with colds, upper respiratory tract infections and bronchitis
30. Antimicrobial use for pediatric upper respiratory infections: Reported practice, actual practice, and parent beliefs
31. Antibiotics: The antipyretics of choice?
32. The cost of antibiotics in treating upper respiratory tract infections in a Medicaid population
33. Antibiotics for colds in children: Who are the high prescribers?
34. Potential interventions for preventing pneumonia among young children: Lack of effect of antibiotic treatment for upper respiratory infections
35. Les infections des voies respiratoires
36. Contemporary use of antibiotics in 1089 adults presenting with acute lower respiratory tract illness in general practice in the UK: Implications for developing management guidelines
37. Bacteriology and treatment of purulent nasopharyngitis
38. Why do physicians prescribe antibiotics for children with upper respiratory tract infections?
39. Patient knowledge of upper respiratory infections: Implications for antibiotic expectations and unnecessary utilization