Delayed antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory infections

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Spurling, Geoffrey K P ^a   Del Mar, Chris B ^b   Dooley, Liz ^c   Foxlee, Ruth ^d   Farley, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Cochrane Editorial Unit ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMMON COLD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DATA BASE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; FEVER; HUMAN; MALAISE; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SORE THROAT; STREPTOCOCCAL PHARYNGITIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CHILD; COMPLICATION; COUGHING; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; META ANALYSIS; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNGITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); TIME FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; COMMON COLD; COUGH; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; FEVER; HUMANS; OTITIS MEDIA; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHARYNGITIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85028967860     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD004417.pub5     Document Type: Review

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