The prescription of antibiotics for respiratory tract infections has to be reduced;Hay que reducir la prescripción de antibióticos en las infecciones del tracto respiratorio

Atencion Primaria

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 449-450

  Llor Vila C ^a,b  

^a Centro de Salud Jaume I   (Spain)

^b WONCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN G;

BRONCHITIS; EDITORIAL; OTITIS MEDIA; PRESCRIPTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SINUSITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 21244501014     PISSN: 02126567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13075473     Document Type: Editorial

References (7)

1. Cars O, Mölstad S, Melander A. Variation in antibiotic use in the European Union. Lancet. 2001;357:1851-3.
2. Bronzwaer SL, Cars O, Buchholz U, Mölstad S, Goettsch W, Veldhuijzen IK, et al; European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System. A European study on the relationship between antimicrobial use and antimicrobial resistance. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8:278-82.
3. Del Mar CB, Glasziou PP, Spinks AB. Antibiotics for sore throat. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;(2):CD000023.
4. Williams JW Jr, Aguilar C, Cornell J, Chiquette ED, Makela M, Holleman DR, et al. Antibiotics for acute maxillary sinusitis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2003;(2):CD000243.
5. Smucny J, Fahey T, Becker L, Glazier R. Antibiotics for acute bronchitis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2004;(4):CD000245.
6. Llor C, Naberan K. ¿Existe evidencia de tratar con antibióticos las agudizaciones de la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica leve? FMC. 2003;10:454-60.
7. Melbye H. Community pneumonia - more help is needed to diagnose and assess severity. Br J Gen Pract. 2002;52:886-8.