BACKGROUND According to scientific literature, antibacterials are prescribed for common pediatric conditions that do not benefit from antibiotic therapy. The link between antibiotic use and bacterial resistance is well known. Antibiotic overprescribing generates high social costs and severe consequences for children. Our objectives were to analyze antibiotic prescription patterns in pediatric o...

OBJECTIVE To assess the availability and applicability of clinical indications from electronic prescriptions on antibiotic use in Danish general practice. DESIGN Retrospective cohort register-based study including the Danish National Prescription Register. SETTING Population-based study of routine electronic antibiotic prescriptions from Danish general practice. SUBJECTS All 975,626 patie...

BACKGROUND There is concern about the increasing resistance of antibiotics to common bacteria. Delayed prescribing for respiratory tract infections is a strategy that may reduce the use of antibiotics. AIM To systematically review controlled trials of delayed prescriptions to establish their capacity to reduce antibiotic intake. DESIGN OF STUDY A systematic review of the literature. SETTI...

Over a 2-week period, the management of upper respiratory tract infection by 24 medical officers and medical assistants in Seremban District was studied. Each practitioner recorded clinical data and prescription for twenty consecutive patients using a structured questionnaire. The extent to which the practitioners used "predictive features" (fever, absence of cough, cervical adenopathy, enlarge...

OBJECTIVE To describe the frequency and characteristics of antibiotic prescribing for different types of contacts with the Danish out-of-hours (OOH) primary care service. DESIGN Population-based observational registry study using routine registry data from the OOH registration system on patient contacts and ATC-coded prescriptions. SETTING The OOH primary care service in the Central Denmark...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between time spent in different public day care settings and prescription of systemic antibiotics. Design. Population-based cohort study of 5035 Danish children born in 1997 followed from birth to June 30, 1999. METHODS The study was performed by the linkage of records drawn from administrative registries. Exposure was the total time spent in a day care ho...

BACKGROUND Respiratory tract infections are an important burden in primary care and it's known that they are usually self-limited and that antibiotics only alter its course slightly. This together with the alarming increase of bacterial resistance due to increased use of antimicrobials calls for a need to consider strategies to reduce their use. One of these strategies is the delayed prescripti...

BACKGROUND We conducted a study to evaluate the impact of education and an antibiotic-control program on antibiotic-prescribing practices, antibiotic consumption, antimicrobial resistance, and cost of antibiotics in a tertiary care hospital in Thailand. METHODS A study of the year before and the year after the intervention was performed. Inpatient antibiotic prescriptions were prospectively o...