Can appropriate diagnosis and treatment of childhood asthma reduce excessive antibiotic usage?

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 443-447

  Gedik, Ahmet Hakan ^a   Cakir, Erkan ^a   Ozkaya, Emin ^b   Ari, Engin ^a   Nursoy, Mustafa ^b  

^a BEZMIALEM VAKIF UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Department of Pediatric Allergy ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Antibiotic usage; Asthma; Childhood

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; CEFUROXIME AXETIL; CLARITHROMYCIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; SULTAMICILLIN; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; ATOPY; CHILD; CONSULTATION; DAY CARE; DRUG USE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EOSINOPHILIA; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD ALLERGY; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PARENT; PRESCRIPTION; SCHOOL; SMOKING; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; WHEEZING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOCIOECONOMICS; TURKEY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-ASTHMATIC AGENTS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 84927691414     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: 14230151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000363750     Document Type: Article

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