Clinical and haematological predictors of antibiotic prescribing for acute cough in adults in Swiss practices - An observational study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Streit, Sven ^a   Frey, Peter ^a   Singer, Sarah ^a   Bollag, Ueli ^a   Meli, Damian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute cough; Antibiotics; Point of care CRP testing; Primary care of Switzerland

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUGH; DECISION MAKING; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; POINT OF CARE TESTING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COUGH; DECISION MAKING; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; POINT-OF-CARE TESTING; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84923912103     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-015-0226-9     Document Type: Article

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