Predictors of antibiotic prescription in respiratory tract infections by ambulatory care practitioners

Medicina

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 501-506

  Aznar, Mireya ^a,c   Mejia, Raul ^a   Wigton, Robert ^b   Fayanas, Roberto ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS JOSÉ DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Antibiotics; Prescription; Respiratory tract infections

Indexed keywords

AMINOPENICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; MACROLIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DRUG COST; DRUG USE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NOSE SECRETION; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COUGH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEVER; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 31144436271     PISSN: 00257680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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