Predictors for antibiotic prescribing in patients with exacerbations of COPD in general practice

Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 131-137

  Llor, Carl ^a   Bjerrum, Lars ^b   Munck, Anders ^c   Hansen, Malene P ^c   Córdoba, Gloria Cristina ^c   Strandberg, Eva Lena ^d   Ovhed, Ingvar ^d   Radzeviciene, Ruta ^e   Cots, Josep M ^f   Reutskiy, Anatoliy ^g   Caballero, Lidia ^h  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^g Association of Family Doctors   (Russian Federation)

^h Misiones Association of General Family Medicine   (Argentina)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; predictors for antibiotic prescribing; primary health care

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CLAVULANIC ACID; PENICILLIN V; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; TETRACYCLINE DERIVATIVE;

ACUTE EXACERBATION OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN TEST KIT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LITHUANIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUS; RAPID TEST; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPAIN; SPUTUM; SWEDEN;

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE; PREDICTORS FOR ANTIBIOTIC PRESCRIBING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; SPUTUM;

EID: 84878270326     PISSN: 17534658     EISSN: 17534666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1753465812472387     Document Type: Article

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