Appropriate use of antibiotics for common infections in an era of increasing resistance

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 69-91

  Louie, Jeffrey P ^a   Bell, Louis M ^b,c  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITALS AND CLINICS OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BACILLIN CR; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFIXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFPROZIL; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN G; SULFANILAMIDE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIVIRAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BRONCHITIS; COMMON COLD; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY WARD; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NONHUMAN; OUTPATIENT; PARENT COUNSELING; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRUS INFECTION;

EID: 0036148174     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0733-8627(03)00052-X     Document Type: Review

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