Patients' responses to delayed antibiotic prescription for acute upper respiratory tract infections

British Journal of General Practice

Volumn 53, Issue 496, 2003, Pages 845-850

  Edwards, Martin ^a,b,c   Dennison, Julie ^a   Sedgwick, Philip ^d  

^a Jenner Practice   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c STaRNet Research Consortium   (United Kingdom)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Infections; Prescriptions; Respiratory tract; Upper respiratory injections

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; CONSULTATION; COUGHING; DRUG USE; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTICENTER STUDY; OTITIS MEDIA; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCRIPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK; SINUSITIS; SORE THROAT; STANDARD; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ENGLAND; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0242659320     PISSN: 09601643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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