Exploring patient- and doctor-related variables associated with antibiotic prescribing for respiratory infections in primary care

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 59, Issue 8-9, 2003, Pages 651-657

  Mazzaglia, Giampiero ^a   Caputi, Achille P ^b   Rossi, Alessandro ^c   Bettoncelli, Germano ^c   Stefanini, Giovanni ^a   Ventriglia, Giuseppe ^c   Nardi, Roberto ^c   Brignoli, Ovidio ^c   Cricelli, Claudio ^c  

^a Health Search Database   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c Italian College of General Practitioners SIMG   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory infections; Antibiotics; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; COMMON COLD; CROUP; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRUG CHOICE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OTITIS MEDIA; PATIENT; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SINUSITIS; TONSILLITIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0344735880     PISSN: 00316970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00228-003-0669-0     Document Type: Article

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