The first European antibiotic awareness day after a decade of improving outpatient antibiotic use in Belgium

Acta Clinica Belgica

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 296-300

  Coenen, Samuel ^a,b   Costers, M ^c,d   De Corte, S ^c   De Sutter, A ^e   Goossens, H ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^c Federal Public Service Health   (Belgium)

^d University Hospital Louvain   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Antibiotics; Antimicrobial resistance; Awareness campaign; Belgium

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE;

ADVERTIZING; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BELGIUM; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CYSTITIS; DRUG USE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; OTITIS MEDIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RHINOSINUSITIS; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES;

EID: 57049125633     PISSN: 00015512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/acb.2008.059     Document Type: Editorial

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