Antibiotic Use for Emergency Department Patients With Upper Respiratory Infections: Prescribing Practices, Patient Expectations, and Patient Satisfaction

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 213-220

  Ong, Samuel ^a   Nakase, Janet ^a   Moran, Gregory J ^a   Karras, David J ^b   Kuehnert, Matthew J ^c   Talan, David A ^a  

^a OLIVE VIEW UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DRUG UTILIZATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 34547870580     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.03.026     Document Type: Article

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