The current status of antibiotic prescribing in ambulatory care: The Lebanese experience

Journal Medical Libanais

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 257-264

  Bizri, Abdul Rahman N ^a   Hamadeh, Ghassan N ^a   Musharrafieh, Umayya M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFACLOR; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DIARRHEA; DRUG UTILIZATION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LEBANON; OTITIS MEDIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AMBULATORY CARE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; GASTROENTERITIS; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OTITIS MEDIA; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0035453020     PISSN: 00239852     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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