Application of mixed-effects models to study the country-specific outpatient antibiotic use in Europe: A tutorial on longitudinal data analysis

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 66, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2011, Pages

  Minalu, Girma ^a   Aerts, Marc ^a   Coenen, Samuel ^b   Versporten, Ann ^b   Muller, Arno ^b   Adriaenssens, Niels ^b   Beutels, Philippe ^b   Molenberghs, Geert ^a,c   Goossens, Herman ^b   Hens, Niel ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care; Antibiotic use; Linear mixed models; Non linear mixed models; Seasonal variation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; DRUG USE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT CARE;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DRUG UTILIZATION; EUROPE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTPATIENTS; SEASONS; TETRACYCLINE;

EID: 82055200375     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkr460     Document Type: Article

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