Acute sinusitis: When-and when not-to prescribe antibiotics

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-19

  Leggett, James E ^a,b,c  

^a PROVIDENCE PORTLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Providence Ambulat Care/Educ Ctr   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFDINIR; CEFPODOXIME PROXETIL; CEFUROXIME; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GATIFLOXACIN; IBUPROFEN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MOXIFLOXACIN; PARACETAMOL; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; XYLOMETAZOLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUNCTURE; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINUSITIS; WINTER;

EID: 1642436719     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2004.01.1415     Document Type: Review

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