Infectious disease burden and antibiotic prescribing in primary care in Israel

Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Low, Marcelo ^a,b   Almog, Ronit ^b,c   Balicer, Ran D ^a,d   Liberman, Nicky ^a   Raz, Raul ^e   Peretz, Avi ^f,g   Nitzan, Orna ^g,h  

^a CLALIT HEALTH SERVICES   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^e TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^f BARUCH PADEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^g BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^h Poriya Hospital   (Israel)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Burden; Infectious diseases; Outpatients; Prescriptions; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE GASTROENTERITIS; ACUTE OTITIS MEDIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHITIS; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE BURDEN; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION; ISRAEL; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARMACY; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA; PRESCRIPTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SINUSITIS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DRUG UTILIZATION; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DRUG UTILIZATION; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; ISRAEL; OTITIS MEDIA; PHARYNGITIS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SINUSITIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 85048344025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14760711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12941-018-0278-5     Document Type: Article

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