Determinants of antipyretic misuse in children up to 5 years of age: A cross-sectional study

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 783-793

  Bilenko, Natalya ^a,b   Tessler, Hedva ^a,c   Okbe, Ranya ^a   Press, Joseph ^a,c   Gorodischer, Rafael ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

antipyretics; children; ethnicity; misuse

Indexed keywords

ANTIPYRETIC AGENT; IBUPROFEN; PARACETAMOL;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CAREGIVER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE CALCULATION; DRUG LABELING; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG OVERDOSE; DRUG USE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INFANT; JEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MOSLEM; PEDIATRICS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUPPOSITORY;

ACETAMINOPHEN; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANALGESICS, NON-NARCOTIC; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; BODY WEIGHT; CAREGIVERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEVER; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IBUPROFEN; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; ISLAM; ISRAEL; JEWS; OVERDOSE; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SUPPOSITORIES;

EID: 33746214701     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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