Over-prescribing of antibiotics and imaging in the management of uncomplicated URIs in emergency departments

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Xu, K Tom ^a,c   Roberts, Daniel ^c   Sulapas, Irvin ^a   Martinez, Omar ^b   Berk, Justin ^a   Baldwin, John ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; MACROLIDE; MOXIFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ICD-9; INFLUENZA; LARYNGITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; RHINOPHARYNGITIS; SENESCENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BRONCHITIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LARYNGITIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNGITIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876078046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227X-13-7     Document Type: Article

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