Improving Outpatient Antibiotic Prescribing for Respiratory Tract Infections: Results of New Algorithms Used in European Trials

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 725-729

  Gaynes, Robert ^a   Levy, Stuart ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRESCRIPTION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; UNITED STATES; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EUROPE; OUTPATIENT; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; VIRUS DISEASES;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; OUTPATIENTS; POINT-OF-CARE TESTING; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84990303157     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.49     Document Type: Review

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