Antibiotic prescription strategies and adverse outcome for uncomplicated lower respiratory tract infections: Prospective cough complication cohort (3C) study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 357, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Little, Paul ^a   Stuart, Beth ^a   Smith, Sue ^b   Thompson, Matthew J ^c   Knox, Kyle ^b   Van Den Bruel, Ann ^b   Lown, Mark ^a   Moore, Michael ^a   Mant, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; OXYGEN SATURATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECONSULTATION; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUGH; GENERAL PRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COUGH; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85019655500     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j2148     Document Type: Article

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