Reducing unnecessary prescriptions of antibiotics for acute cough: Adaptation of a leaflet aimed at Turkish immigrants in Germany

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Sahlan, Selime ^a   Wollny, Anja ^a   Brockmann, Silke ^a   Fuchs, Angela ^a   Altiner, Attila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCRIPTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLICATION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COUGH; DECISION MAKING; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAMPHLETS; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TURKEY;

EID: 55349105135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-9-57     Document Type: Article

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