Changes in clinical indications for community antibiotic prescribing for children in the UK from 1996 to 2006: will the new NICE prescribing guidance on upper respiratory tract infections just be ignored?
| Autor: | Sonia Saxena, Nikos Spyridis, Ian C. K. Wong, Paul F. Long, Alan P. Johnson, Mike Sharland, Ruth Gilbert, Paula L Thompson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Drug Administration Schedule Lower respiratory tract infection medicine Humans Otitis Practice Patterns Physicians' Child Respiratory Tract Infections Retrospective Studies Antibacterial agent Evidence-Based Medicine Respiratory tract infections business.industry Respiratory disease Infant Newborn Infant Pharyngitis medicine.disease Anti-Bacterial Agents Tonsillitis Upper respiratory tract infection medicine.anatomical_structure Child Preschool Practice Guidelines as Topic Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female medicine.symptom business Respiratory tract |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Disease in Childhood. 94:337-340 |
| ISSN: | 1468-2044 0003-9888 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/adc.2008.147579 |
| Popis: | Objective: To analyse changes in clinical indications for community antibiotic prescribing for children in the UK between 1996 and 2006 and relate these findings to the new NICE guidelines for the treatment of upper respiratory tract infections in children. Study design: Retrospective cohort study. Method: The IMS Health Mediplus database was used to obtain annual antibiotic prescribing rates and associated clinical indications in 0–18-year-old patients between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2006 in the UK. Results: Antibiotic prescribing declined by 24% between 1996 and 2000 but increased again by 10% during 2003–2006. Respiratory tract infection was the most common indication for which an antibiotic was prescribed, followed by “abnormal signs and symptoms”, ear and skin infections. Antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory tract infections have decreased by 31% (p |
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