Antibiotic prescription in febrile children: A cohort study during out-of-hours primary care

Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 810-818

  Elshout, Gijs ^a   Kool, Marijke ^a   Van Der Wouden, Johannes C ^a   Moll, Henriëtte A ^a   Koes, Bart W ^a   Berger, Marjolein Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Child; Family in family medicine; Family medicine; Fever; Infectious diseases; Pediatrics; Primary health care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COUGHING; CRYING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE DURATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNICITY; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYPERSALIVATION; INFANT; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; OTALGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARENT; PHARYNGITIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREMATURE LABOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; RHINORRHEA; SKIN DISEASE; SLEEP PATTERN; TACHYPNEA; VOMITING;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INFANT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84869237691     PISSN: 15572625     EISSN: 15587118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2012.06.110310     Document Type: Article

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