Acute sinusitis: Guide to selection of antibacterial therapy

Drugs

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 805-819

  Lindbaek, Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIHISTAMINIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFACLOR; CEFIXIME; CEFPODOXIME; CEFUROXIME; CLARITHROMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLACILLIN; DECONGESTIVE AGENT; DOXYCYCLINE; FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE; LINCOMYCIN; MINOCYCLINE; MUCOLYTIC AGENT; PENICILLIN V; PROTEINASE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTHROPATHY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN ABSCESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMON COLD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE A; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMAGING; MENINGITIS; META ANALYSIS; MIGRAINE; ORBIT CELLULITIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUNCTURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; RHINOSINUSITIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SIDE EFFECT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; TEMPOROMANDIBULAR JOINT; TENSION HEADACHE; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VIRUS INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; SINUSITIS; TIME FACTORS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; VIRUS DISEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE SEROTYPE A; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 2342649439     PISSN: 00126667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/00003495-200464080-00002     Document Type: Review

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