Are children carrying the burden of broad-spectrum antibiotics in general practice? Prescription pattern for paediatric outpatients with respiratory tract infections in Norway

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fossum, Guro Haugen ^a,b   Lindbæk, Morten ^a   Gjelstad, Svein ^a   Dalen, Ingvild ^a   Kværner, Kari J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; LINCOSAMIDE; MACROLIDE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PENICILLIN V;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LARYNGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SINUSITIS; TONSILLITIS;

EID: 84873438168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002285     Document Type: Article

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