Antibiotic prescriptions in children

Retrospective survey of antibiotic prescriptions in dentistry.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate dentists' prescription writing patterns and their appreciation of the characteristics of antibiotics. DESIGN Evaluation of drug prescriptions written over a six-month period. SETTING Dental Hospital, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. SUBJECTS Retrospective analysis of 313 prescriptions written by dentists attending to outpatient...

Antibiotic Prescriptions in Critically-Ill Patients: A Latin American Experience

BACKGROUND It is widely acknowledged that the presence of infection is an important outcome determinant for intensive care unit (ICU) patients. In fact, antibiotics are one of the most common therapies administered in the ICU settings. AIM To evaluate the current usage of antibiotics in Latin American ICUs. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A one-day p-oint prevalence study to investigate the patterns o...

The epidemiology of antibiotic resistance in hospitals: paradoxes and prescriptions.

A simple mathematical model of bacterial transmission within a hospital was used to study the effects of measures to control nosocomial transmission of bacteria and reduce antimicrobial resistance in nosocomial pathogens. The model predicts that: (i) Use of an antibiotic for which resistance is not yet present in a hospital will be positively associated at the individual level (odds ratio) with...

Recurrent Antibiotic Prescriptions in the Kentucky Medicaid Population

Antibiotic prescriptions for outpatient acute rhinosinusitis in Canada, 2007-2013

INTRODUCTION Acute rhinosinusitis (ARS) is a respiratory disease commonly caused by viral infections. Physicians regularly prescribe antibiotics despite bacterial etiologies being uncommon. This is of concern, as this use adds to the selection pressure for resistance. Here we present the descriptive epidemiology of acute rhinosinusitis and corresponding antibiotic prescribing practices by Canad...