National trends in emergency department antibiotic prescribing for elders with urinary tract infection, 1996-2005

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 500-507

  Caterino, Jeffrey M ^a   Weed, Sarah Grace ^b   Espinola, Janice A ^c   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Antibiotic; Elderly; Emergency department; Urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LINCOSAMIDE DERIVATIVE; MACROLIDE; NITROFURANTOIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MONOTHERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELONEPHRITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; DRUG UTILIZATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67149141557     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00353.x     Document Type: Article

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